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Researchers Identify 17 Genetic Variations Associated with Depression

The team identified 17 new genetic variations linked to depression. Image credit: Patrica J. Joslin.
Aug 2, 2016 by News Staff

A team of researchers has identified 17 genetic variations associated with depression in individuals of European ancestry. The team identified 17 new genetic variations linked to depression. Image credit: Patrica J. Joslin. It’s well known that at least some depression runs in families and some risk is inherited. Yet, prior to this study, conventional genome-wide approaches had failed to reliably identify chromosomal sites associated with the illness...

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This is an artist’s rendition of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). Image credit: Flying Puffin / CC BY-SA 2.0.

Freshwater Scarcity Led to Extinction of Woolly Mammoths on Alaska’s Saint Paul Island

Aug 2, 2016 by News Staff

While the famous Minoan culture was just beginning, woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) were disappearing from Saint Paul Island, according to a group...

This is an artist's impression of an exoplanet. Image credit: Ron Miller.

Life as We Know It is Premature from Cosmic Perspective, Study Suggests

Aug 2, 2016 by News Staff

The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, while Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago. Some cosmologists think this time gap means that life on other planets...

Solar cells. Image credit: Airman 1st Class Nadine Y. Barclay / U.S. Air Force.

Photosynthetic Solar Cell Converts Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Sunlight into Fuel

Aug 1, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of researchers and engineers from South Korea and the United States has developed a solar cell that efficiently converts carbon dioxide...

This image shows a small but bright globular cluster called NGC 4833, which lies in the constellation of Musca, about 22,000 light-years away. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Hubble Snaps Beautiful Image of Distant Globular Cluster

Aug 1, 2016 by Natali Anderson

This image from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) is likely the best of the star cluster NGC 4833. This image shows a small but bright globular...

Juno arrives at Jupiter. Image credit: NASA / JPL.

NASA’s Juno Orbiter Reaches Apojove

Jul 31, 2016 by News Staff

Almost a month after slipping into orbit around the Solar System’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is nearing a turning point. Juno. Image credit:...

Dr. Gosker inside the pottery workshop’s water reservoir. Image credit: Royee Liran / Israel Antiquities Authority.

Roman-Era Pottery Workshop Unearthed in Northern Israel

Jul 30, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have unearthed a 1,600-year-old (Roman period) pottery workshop at the archaeological site of...

Pheidole viserion. Image credit: Masako Ogasawara.

Four New Species of Ants Discovered – Two Named after Game of Thrones’ Dragons

Jul 29, 2016 by News Staff

A group of Japanese entomologists has described and named four new species of the ant genus Pheidole from the tropical rainforests of Papua New Guinea...

Image of the external morphology of a hominin foot bone (Paranthropus robustus or Homo ergaster) shows the extent of expansion of the primary bone cancer beyond the surface of the bone. Image credit: Patrick Randolph-Quinney.

South African Fossils Reveal Earliest Hominin Evidence of Cancer

Jul 29, 2016 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists led by Dr. Patrick Randolph-Quinney from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in Johannesburg, South Africa,...

Illustration of elephant feeding ecology in the Late Pleistocene of southern China. Elephas (left) incoporates more graze in its diet; whereas Stegodon (right) is an obligate browser of fresh shoots and leaves. Image credit: Nicola Heath.

Paleontologists Reconstruct Diets of Ancient Elephant Relatives

Jul 28, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists headed by Prof. Mark Purnell of the University of Leicester, UK, and Dr. Yuan Wang from the Institute of Vertebrate...

Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus).

Indianapolis Zoo’s Orangutan Mimics Human Speech

Jul 28, 2016 by News Staff

Rocky, an eleven-year-old male orangutan living at Indianapolis Zoo, offers clues to how human speech evolved, according to new research led by Durham...

CX330. Image credit: C.T. Britt et al.

Astronomers Spot Loneliest Young Star

Jul 28, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers led by Texas Tech University scientist Dr. Christopher Britt has spotted a very young star, called CXOGBS J173643.8-282122...

Artist’s concept of the mechanism of heating from the Great Red Spot. Turbulent atmospheric flows above the storm produce both gravity waves and acoustic waves. Gravity waves are much like how a guitar string moves when plucked, while acoustic waves are compressions of the air (sound waves). Heating in the upper atmosphere 500 miles (805 km) above the storm is thought to be caused by a combination of these two wave types ‘crashing’ like ocean waves on a beach. Image credit: Karen Teramura, University of Hawaii at Manoa / James O’Donoghue, Boston University.

Great Red Spot Heats Jupiter’s Upper Atmosphere

Jul 28, 2016 by News Staff

The upper atmosphere above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot – the largest storm in the Solar System – is hundreds of degrees hotter than anywhere...

Berardius sp.nov. Image credit: Uko Gorter.

Evidence Indicates Presence of Undescribed Beaked Whale Species in North Pacific

Jul 27, 2016 by Natali Anderson

An international team of marine biologists has found genetic evidence of a previously unknown species of beaked whale (Berardius sp.nov.) that ranges from...

This artist’s impression shows AR Scorpii. In this unique double star a rapidly spinning white dwarf star (right) powers electrons up to almost the speed of light. These high energy particles release blasts of radiation that lash the companion red dwarf star (left) and cause the entire system to pulse dramatically every 1.97 minutes with radiation ranging from the ultraviolet to radio. Image credit: M. Garlick / University of Warwick / ESO.

Astronomers Find New Type of Binary Star

Jul 27, 2016 by News Staff

Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a new type of binary star, in which a rapidly-spinning white dwarf star sweeps powerful beams of...

Our Milky Way Galaxy is surrounded by an enormous halo of plasma (seen in blue in this artists’ rendition). Image credit: NASA / CXC / M.Weiss / Ohio State / A. Gupta et al.

Milky Way’s Halo Spins in the Same Direction as Galactic Disk, Say Astronomers

Jul 27, 2016 by News Staff

The gaseous halo of our Milky Way Galaxy is spinning in the same direction and at a similar speed as the Galaxy’s disk, which contains stars, planets,...

DNA molecule. Image credit: Christoph Bock, Max Planck Institute for Informatics / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Genetic Code is More Diverse than We Think

Jul 26, 2016 by News Staff

New research is casting doubt on a widely held belief about how cells use DNA to make proteins. DNA molecule. Image credit: Christoph Bock, Max Planck...

Aedes aegypti biting human. Image credit: James Gathany / CDC.

First Confirmed Transmission of Zika Virus by Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes

Jul 26, 2016 by News Staff

Led by University of Texas Medical Branch researcher Prof. Scott Weaver, an international team of scientists is the first to directly connect Aedes aegypti...

Venus in real colors, processed from Mariner 10 images. Image credit: Mattias Malmer / NASA.

Clouds High in Venus’ Atmosphere Reveal Features on Planet’s Surface

Jul 26, 2016 by News Staff

Using data from ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft, European planetary researchers have shown how weather patterns seen in Venus’ cloud layers are directly...

A fragment of a limestone statute of a top Egyptian official from the Middle Kingdom. Image credit: Shlomit Bechar.

Statue Fragment of Ancient Egyptian Official Found in Israel

Jul 26, 2016 by News Staff

Israeli archaeologists have found a large fragment of a limestone Egyptian statue dating to the third millennium BC at Tel-Hazor, site of the Biblical...

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