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Paleontologists Find ‘Bubbles of Oxygen’ in 1.6-Billion-Year-Old Stromatolites

Mar 6, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international research team led by Swedish Museum of Natural History scientists has found that stromatolites (solid, laminar structures of biological...

The South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa). Image credit: OpenCage / CC BY-SA 2.5.

Primitive Air-Breathing Fish Share Mechanisms Controlling Heart with Mammals

Mar 6, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has discovered that systems enabling the South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) to control blood flow during...

Artist’s impression of an infant star still surrounded by a protoplanetary disk in which planets are forming. Image credit: L. Calçada / ESO.

Giant Exoplanet Creates Gaps in Protoplanetary Disk around Young Star AS 209

Mar 6, 2018 by Natali Anderson

Nestled in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, approximately 410 light-years from the Sun, a fascinating protoplanetary disk around the young star AS 209...

Saxifraga sempervivum, a species of alpine plant in Cambridge University Botanic Gardens, ‘produces pure vaterite.’ Image credit: Paul Aston.

Biologists Find Rare and Unstable Mineral Vaterite in Alpine Plants

Mar 6, 2018 by News Staff

A team of biologists from the University of Cambridge, UK, has found that a very rare and unstable mineral called vaterite is a dominant component of the...

Propagation of waves through an astrophysical disk can be understood using the Schrödinger Equation. Image credit: James Tuttle Keane, California Institute of Technology.

Massive Astronomical Objects Governed by Schrödinger Equation

Mar 6, 2018 by News Staff

Surprisingly, the Schrödinger Equation — the fundamental equation of quantum mechanics — emerges while studying massive astronomical structures. Propagation...

Artist impression of a juvenile enantiornithe bird. Image credit: Raúl Martín.

Early Cretaceous Bird Fossil Sheds New Light on Avian Evolution

Mar 5, 2018 by News Staff

The tiny fossil of a juvenile enantiornithe bird from the Early Cretaceous La Huérguina Formation of Spain is helping paleontologists understand how early...

Macrobiotus shonaicus. Scale bars in μm. Image credit: Stec et al, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192210.

New Species of Tardigrade Found in Japan

Mar 5, 2018 by Natali Anderson

An international team of biologists from Poland and Japan has discovered and described a new species of tardigrade. Details of the micro-animal’s discovery...

Artistic impression of a quantum ball lighting. Image credit: Heikka Valja.

Physicists Create ‘Shankar Skyrmion’ — Quasiparticle with Properties of Ball Lightning

Mar 5, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of physicists from Amherst College and Aalto University has created the Shankar skyrmion, a quasiparticle consisting of a knotted...

Borowicz et al found that the Danger Islands have 751,527 pairs of Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) -- more than the rest of the entire Antarctic Peninsula region combined. Image credit: Rachael Herman, Louisiana State University / Stony Brook University.

Scientists Find Mega-Colony of Adélie Penguins in Antarctica

Mar 5, 2018 by News Staff

A recent expedition to the Danger Islands, a chain of remote islands off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, used new technologies to discover...

This image, taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3972. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble team / A. Riess, STScI & JHU.

Hubble Captures Stunning Image of Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 3972

Mar 5, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3972, which is found in the constellation of Ursa Major. This image,...

Rare Greenland Sharks Captured on Film in Canadian Arctic

Mar 2, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of marine biologists from the Fisheries and Marine Institute of the Memorial University of Newfoundland has filmed Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus)...

Chang et al found a significant association between varicose veins and DVT. The illustration shows how a varicose vein forms in a leg. Image credit: National Heart Lung and Blood Institute / Jmarchn / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Varicose Veins Linked to Increased Risk of Deep Venous Thrombosis

Mar 2, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to an observational study published in the journal JAMA, varicose veins may be a warning sign of a type of blood clot known as a deep venous...

This artist’s concept illustrates the hot-Saturn exoplanet WASP-39b. Image credit: NASA / ESA / G. Bacon, STScI.

Hubble Finds Large Amount of Water Vapor in Atmosphere of Hot-Saturn WASP-39b

Mar 2, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a Saturn-mass exoplanet known as WASP-39b. By combining...

According to Briscoe et al, IT neurons were present in the last common ancestor of birds and mammals. Image credit: Susanne J.

Study: Mammals and Birds Share Neuronal Cell Types Linked to Intelligence

Mar 2, 2018 by News Staff

Neuronal cell types in the avian brains linked to goal-directed behaviors and cognition are similar to cells in a region of the mammalian brain called...

Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the human body after calcium, potassium, and sodium. Foods high in magnesium include almonds, bananas, beans, broccoli, brown rice, cashews, egg yolk, fish oil, flaxseed, green vegetables, milk, mushrooms, other nuts, oatmeal, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, soybeans, sunflower seeds, sweet corn, tofu, and whole grains. Image credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Magnesium-Deficient Diet Makes Vitamin D Ineffective, Review Says

Mar 1, 2018 by News Staff

Vitamin D can’t be metabolized without sufficient magnesium levels, meaning Vitamin D remains stored and inactive for as many as 50% of Americans, according...

African dung beetles (Scarabaeus satyrus) use the glow of the Milky Way to navigate. Image credit: Emily Baird.

Nocturnal Animals Use Stars for Orientation

Mar 1, 2018 by News Staff

Nocturnal animals can use the stars and the Milky Way to find their way during the darkest hours, according to a new review article, published in the Proceedings...

Artist’s rendering of how the first stars in the Universe may have looked. Image credit: N.R. Fuller, National Science Foundation.

Astronomers Detect Signal from Universe’s Earliest Stars

Mar 1, 2018 by News Staff

Using the Experiment to Detect Global EoR Signature (EDGES), a small ground-based radio telescope at CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in...

Dr. Moriarty and Professor Pieters identified four distinct compositional regions within and around the South Pole-Aitken basin on the Moon. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

New Research Details Mineralogy of Enormous Impact Crater on the Far Side of the Moon

Mar 1, 2018 by News Staff

A team of planetary scientists from Brown University and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has mapped the mineralogy of the South Pole-Aitken basin,...

The Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) is a medium-sized passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea. Image credit: Toby Hudson / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Australian Magpies Living in Large Groups Are No Bird Brains: Study

Feb 28, 2018 by News Staff

A new study by researchers from the University of Western Australia and the University of Exeter shows that in wild Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen),...