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Curiosity Finds Long-Chain Carbon Molecules in Martian Mudstone

This graphic shows the long-chain organic molecules decane, undecane, and dodecane, and NASA’s Curiosity rover. Image credit: NASA / Dan Gallagher.
Mar 25, 2025 by Natali Anderson

The Sample Analysis at Mars instrument onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected decane, undecane, and dodecane molecules in a sample from Gale crater. This graphic shows the long-chain organic molecules decane, undecane, and dodecane, and NASA’s Curiosity rover. Image credit: NASA / Dan Gallagher. “Curiosity’s primary scientific goal is to quantitatively assess the habitability potential of Mars, past or present,” said Dr. Caroline Freissinet,...

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The common starfish (Asterias rubens) in Brofjorden at Govik, Lysekil municipality, Sweden. Image credit: W. Carter.

Appetite-Controlling Neurohormone Has Ancient Evolutionary Origin, New Study Shows

Mar 25, 2025 by News Staff

A satiety-inducing molecule called bombesin is not only present in humans and other vertebrates but also in invertebrates such as starfish and their marine...

Webb observed Herbig-Haro 49/50 in high-resolution near- and mid-infrared light with the NIRCam and MIRI instruments. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI.

Webb Spots Tornado-Like Herbig-Haro Object

Mar 25, 2025 by News Staff

Using the NIRCam and MIRI instruments onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have produced a high-resolution image of Herbig-Haro...

An artist’s impression of Darwinopterus camposi. Image credit: Maurilio Oliveira / Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

New Pterosaur Species Discovered in China: Darwinopterus camposi

Mar 24, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of the wukongopterid pterosaur genus Darwinopterus has been identified from an almost complete skeleton found in western Liaoning, China. An...

This image shows the spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268-0449256 and its giant radio jets. Image credit: Bagchi et al. / Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope.

Cosmic Anomaly: Massive Spiral Galaxy is Ejecting Colossal Pair of Relativistic Jets

Mar 24, 2025 by News Staff

2MASX J23453268-0449256 (J2345-0449 for short), an extremely massive, rapidly rotating, jet-launching spiral galaxy approximately 947 million light-years...

An artist’s conception of a violent stellar flare from Proxima Centauri. Image credit: S. Dagnello, NRAO / AUI / NSF.

Proxima Centauri Exhibits Extreme Flaring Activity, New ALMA Observations Show

Mar 24, 2025 by News Staff

Proxima Centauri’s flaring activity has been well known to astronomers using visible wavelengths, but new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter...

Babies are able to learn abstract relations before the first year of life. Image credit: Kang Heungbo.

Why Don’t We Remember Specific Events from Our First Years of Life?

Mar 24, 2025 by News Staff

Challenging assumptions about infant memory, a new Yale University-led study shows that infants as young as 12 months old can encode memories. The findings...

This Hubble image shows NGC 5530, a spiral galaxy some 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Lupus. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker.

Hubble Captures Stunning Image of NGC 5530

Mar 24, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released a beautiful new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the ‘flocculent’ spiral galaxy NGC 5530. This Hubble image...

Life reconstruction of the ctenochasmatid pterosaur Gladocephaloideus jingangshanensis. Image credit: Zhao Chuang.

147-Million-Year-Old Pterosaur Fossil Discovered in England

Mar 21, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists have discovered and described a new ctenochasmatid pterosaurian mandible from the Late Jurassic Portland Limestone Formation of southern...

Pistachio (Pistacia vera) is a sustainable nut crop with exceptional climate resilience and nutritional value. Image credit: NoName_13.

Scientists Sequence Pistachio Genome

Mar 21, 2025 by News Staff

Researchers at the University of California, Davis have generated a chromosome-scale reference genome for the most widely grown pistachio cultivar ‘Kerman.’ Pistachio...

Cooper & Milinkovitch demonstrate that an intravenous injection of sonidegib, a potent Shh pathway inhibitor, at embryonic day 9 (E9) temporarily produces striped domains (instead of spots) of Shh expression in the skin, arrests morphogenesis, and results in unbranched and non-invaginated feather buds -- akin to proto-feathers -- in embryos until E14. Image credit: Fabrice Berger & Michel Milinkovitch.

‘Sonic Hedgehog Pathway’ Underlies Evolutionary Emergence and Diversity of Feathers, Study Suggests

Mar 20, 2025 by News Staff

Molecular signaling pathways are communication systems that transmit messages within and between cells. According to a new study by University of Geneva...

Increased consumption of fruit, dietary fiber, dairy products and caffeine may be associated with a reduced risk of tinnitus. Image credit: Serp Pae.

Consuming Fruit, Dietary Fiber, Caffeine and Dairy May Be Associated with Reduced Risk of Tinnitus

Mar 20, 2025 by News Staff

The primary underlying mechanisms may involve the protective effects of these diets on blood vessels and nerves, as well as their anti-inflammatory and...

This is an artist’s impression of JADES-GS-z14-0. Image credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser.

ALMA Detects Oxygen in Farthest Known Galaxy

Mar 20, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected oxygen in the most distant confirmed galaxy ever found, JADES-GS-z14-0....

This artist’s impression shows the evolution of the Universe beginning with the Big Bang on the left followed by the appearance of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The formation of the first stars ends the cosmic dark ages, followed by the formation of galaxies. Image credit: M. Weiss / Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Dark Energy Survey Supports Theory of Evolving Dark Energy

Mar 19, 2025 by News Staff

The Lambda-CDM (ΛCDM) model has been the foundation of modern cosmology for some time now, successfully describing large-scale structures in the Universe....

Two ‘fans’ corresponding to the two main areas DESI has observed, above and below the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: DESI Collaboration / DOE / KPNO / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / R. Proctor.

Dark Energy Might Be Evolving over Time in Unexpected Ways

Mar 19, 2025 by News Staff

New results from the DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) Collaboration have revealed signs of a time-varying dark energy. Two ‘fans’ corresponding...

An image of the CMB radiation from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope; orange and blue represent more or less intense radiation. Image credit: ACT Collaboration.

Atacama Cosmology Telescope Captures Clearest Images Yet of Cosmic Microwave Background

Mar 19, 2025 by News Staff

New images from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) reveal the Universe when it was about 380,000 years old. An image of the CMB radiation from the Atacama...

An artist’s impression of a rocky asteroid. Image credit: Mark A. Garlick, Space-art.co.uk / University of Warwick / University of Cambridge.

75 Laboratory-Classified Meteorites Traced to Their Parent Asteroids in Main Belt

Mar 19, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers from SETI Institute, NASA’s Ames Research Center and Curtin University have traced the impact orbit of 75 observed meteorite falls to several...

A 30,000-year-old fossilized feather of griffon vulture preserved with the volcanic rock from the Colli Albani volcanic complex, Rome, Italy. Image credit: Edoardo Terranova.

30,000-Year-Old Fossil Feathers of Griffon Vulture Found in Italy

Mar 19, 2025 by News Staff

Fossil feathers are usually preserved as carbonaceous films and impressions in lacustrine and marine sediments, or embedded in amber, but rarely mineralized....

Klingons at San Diego Comic-Con 2014. Image credit: Chris Favero / CC BY-SA 2.0.

Klingon and Other Conlangs are Processed by Same Brain Mechanisms as Natural Languages: Study

Mar 18, 2025 by News Staff

What constitutes a language has been of interest to diverse disciplines — from philosophy and linguistics to psychology, anthropology, and sociology....

Wind turbine blades, made from difficult to recycle materials, may be among the most surprising fossils found by future paleontologists. Image credit: Gemini AI.

Wind Turbine Blades May Be among Most Surprising Technofossils for Future Paleontologists

Mar 18, 2025 by News Staff

University of Leicester paleontologists Sarah Gabbott and Jan Zalasiewicz have published a new book on how all the different kinds of so-called technofossils...

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