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New Horizons’ Top Ten Images, Discoveries at Pluto

One year ago, NASA’s New Horizons space probe entered the history books by exploring the Pluto system. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.
Jul 18, 2016 by News Staff

One year ago, NASA’s New Horizons space probe entered the history books by exploring the Pluto system. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute. After a journey of 9.5 years through the Solar System, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015. Since then, the spacecraft has sent back spectacular images of the dwarf planet, its largest moon Charon and four smaller...

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This Hubble image shows the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 3125. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Captures Stunning Image of Nearby Starburst Galaxy

Jul 18, 2016 by News Staff

This image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the star-forming galaxy NGC 3125. This...

An array of household items, including whole pots. Image credit: Dave Webb / Cambridge Archaeological Unit.

Must Farm: Bronze Age Settlement Sheds Light on Everyday Life

Jul 15, 2016 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the University of Cambridge have made remarkable discoveries about everyday life in the Bronze Age during the excavation of ancient...

This is one slice through the map of the large-scale structure of the Universe from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. Each dot in this picture indicates the position of a galaxy 6 billion years into the past. The image covers about 1/20th of the sky, a slice of the Universe 6 billion light-years wide, 4.5 billion light-years high, and 500 million light-years thick. Color indicates distance from Earth, ranging from yellow on the near side of the slice to purple on the far side. Galaxies are highly clustered, revealing superclusters and voids whose presence is seeded in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang. This image contains 48,741 galaxies, about 3% of the full survey dataset. Grey patches are small regions without survey data. Image credit: Daniel Eisenstein / SDSS-III Collaboration.

Astronomers Create 3D Map of 1.2 Million Galaxies to Study Properties of Dark Energy

Jul 15, 2016 by News Staff

Astronomers from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS, part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III) have produced the largest-ever 3D map of...

Cows. Image credit: Peggy Marco.

Study: Happy Cows Make Better Milk

Jul 15, 2016 by News Staff

Daily infusions with serotonin, a naturally-occurring chemical associated with feelings of happiness, were shown to increase calcium levels in both the...

Scanning electron micrograph of filamentous Ebola virus particles (blue) budding from a chronically infected cell (yellow-green). Image credit: NIAID.

Viruses are Dominant Driver of Human Evolution, Researchers Say

Jul 14, 2016 by News Staff

In a new study published in the journal eLife, scientists apply big-data analysis to reveal the full extent of viruses’ impact on the evolution of humans...

This artist’s impression shows the water snow-line around the young star V883 Orionis. Image credit: A. Angelich / NRAO / AUI / NSF / ALMA / ESO / NAOJ.

ALMA Spots Water Snow-Line around Young Star V883 Orionis

Jul 14, 2016 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have taken the first-ever image of a water snow-line within a protoplanetary...

Two Gualicho shinyae attack a smaller dinosaur. Image credit: Jorge Gonzalez / Pablo Lara.

Gualicho shinyae: New Theropod Dinosaur Unearthed in Argentina

Jul 14, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A team of paleontologists has found fossil fragments from a remarkable new species of theropod dinosaur that walked our planet around 94 million years...

Escherichia coli. Image credit: Janice Haney Carr / CDC.

Second Case in the US of Bacteria with Colistin Resistance Gene

Jul 14, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

For the second time, a clinical strain of Escherichia coli with the colistin resistance gene mcr-1 has been detected in humans in the United States, according...

Sunflowers. Image credit: Betty Jo Tindle / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Why Don’t Plants Get Sunburn?

Jul 13, 2016 by Nigel Paul, Lancaster University

Sunflowers. Image credit: Betty Jo Tindle / CC BY-SA 3.0. The one fact about plants that most people probably remember from school is that they use sunlight...

In AD, changes in tau protein lead to the disintegration of microtubules in brain cells. Image credit: Alzheimer’s Disease Education and Referral Center / National Institute on Aging.

Progress in Development of First Vaccine for Alzheimer’s Disease

Jul 13, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of researchers from the United States and Australia has made a successful vaccine formulation that targets pathological proteins...

Mantis shrimp -- predatory, ocean-dwelling crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda -- use eye rotations to improve their vision. Image credit: Michael Bok / University of Lund.

Mantis Shrimp Use Eye Rotations to Enhance Their Polarization Vision, Say Biologists

Jul 13, 2016 by Natali Anderson

The eye-rolling behavior of mantis shrimp helps them see the world, says a team of biologists led by Nicholas Roberts of the University of Bristol, UK. Mantis...

This color view from NASA’s Juno spacecraft shows atmospheric features on Jupiter, including the Great Red Spot. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS.

Juno Beams Back First In-Orbit Images of Jupiter, Galilean Moons

Jul 13, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Juno’s low-resolution in-orbit images of Jupiter and three of its largest moons — Europa, Io, and Ganymede — have made their way back to...

Archaeological evidence suggests that Brazilian bearded capuchin monkeys have been using stone tools to crack open cashew nuts for at least 600 years. Image credit: University of Oxford.

Brazilian Capuchins Have Used Stone Tools for at least 600 Years

Jul 12, 2016 by News Staff

Wild Brazilian bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) use stones to pound open defended food, including cashew nuts. And this activity dates back...

‘Morse code’ dunes on Mars. Image credit: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona.

‘Morse Code’ Dunes Spotted on Mars

Jul 12, 2016 by News Staff

The latest images released by NASA’s HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) team show ‘Morse code’ dunes on the Martian surface. ‘Morse...

Dwarf planet Sedna. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt, SSC-Caltech.

2015 RR245: New Dwarf Planet Discovered in Solar System’s Kuiper Belt

Jul 12, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of our Solar System just...

This image of the Orion Nebula was obtained from multiple exposures using VLT’s HAWK-I infrared camera. This is the deepest view ever of this region and reveals more very faint planetary-mass objects than expected. Image credit: H. Drass et al / ESO.

ESO’s Very Large Telescope Peers Deep into Heart of Orion Nebula

Jul 12, 2016 by News Staff

A group of astronomers has used the High Acuity Wide-field K-band Imager (HAWK-I), an infrared instrument installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT)...

The Pauli exclusion principle predicts a forbidden zone along a meridian of the spherical halo of scattered particles, which the experiments indeed unveiled. The dark band in the graphic shows a rule derived from the principle in action. This rule is that indistinguishable fermions cannot scatter out at 90 degrees to the collision axis. Image credit: Niels Kjærgaard.

Pauli Exclusion: Physicists Directly Observe Key Principle of Quantum Mechanics

Jul 11, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Niels Kjærgaard from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, has used steerable ‘optical tweezers’...

This artist's impression shows the brown dwarf WISE 0855-0714. The color of the brown dwarf in this image is arbitrary; it would have different colors when viewed in different wavelength ranges. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Penn State University.

Scientists Find Evidence of Water in Infrared Spectrum of Nearby Brown Dwarf

Jul 11, 2016 by News Staff

Astronomers have succeeded in obtaining an infrared spectrum of the recently discovered brown dwarf WISE J085510.83-071442.5 (WISE 0855 for short), providing...

This image from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys is likely the best of the spiral galaxy LEDA 56779. The brilliant object at right is a star in our Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / N. Grogin, STScI.

Hubble Spots Lonely Star-Forming Spiral

Jul 11, 2016 by News Staff

The subject of this Hubble image is LEDA 56779, a spiral galaxy located 300 million light-years away in the constellation of Hercules. This image from...

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