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Two New Edible Truffle Species Discovered in Eastern North America

Tuber cumberlandense. Image credit: Sow et al., doi: 10.1080/00275514.2024.2407755.
Jan 21, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Two new species of the genus Tuber have been discovered with the assistance of trained truffle-hunting dogs. Tuber cumberlandense. Image credit: Sow et al., doi: 10.1080/00275514.2024.2407755. “Tuber is a genus of ectomycorrhizal fungi that produces hypogeous fruiting bodies known as truffles,” said senior author Dr. Gregory Bonito of Michigan State University and his colleagues. “Many Tuber species are well known for their unique aromas and...

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Chimpanzees eating leaves at the Kumamoto Sanctuary in Japan. Image credit: Onishi et al., doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.11.052.

Study: In Chimpanzees, Urinations Are Contagious

Jan 21, 2025 by News Staff

The decision to urinate involves a complex combination of both physiological and social considerations. However, the social dimensions of urination remain...

Dr. Nguyen Thanh Son holding a giant specimen of Bathynomus jamesi (weighs 2.62 kg) from a seafood market in Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2024. Image credit: Peter Ng.

New Species of Giant Isopod Discovered in South China Sea

Jan 21, 2025 by Natali Anderson

The new isopod species has been named Bathynomus vaderi after the most famous Sith Lord in the Star Wars movie series, Darth Vader, whose helmet resembles...

Holotype of Neobohaiornis lamadongensis. Image credit: Shen et al., doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-82869-8.

Fossil of Tiny Enantiornithine Bird Unearthed in China

Jan 20, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of bohaiornithid enantiornithine bird has been identified from a nearly complete and articulated skeleton preserved with traces...

IAA archaeologists cleaning the ancient mosaic of a Byzantine-period monastery at Kiryat Gat, Israel. Image credit: Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority.

Byzantine-Era Monastery with Colorful Mosaic Floor Unearthed in Israel

Jan 20, 2025 by News Staff

Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have discovered the ruins of a Byzantine-period monastery with a colorful mosaic floor and a...

The Andromeda galaxy is seen almost edge-on, tilted by 77 degrees relative to Earth’s view; interesting regions include: (a) clusters of bright blue stars embedded within the galaxy, background galaxies seen much farther away, and photo-bombing by a couple bright foreground stars that are actually inside our Milky Way; (b) NGC 206 is the most conspicuous star cloud in Andromeda; (c) a young cluster of blue newborn stars; (d) the satellite galaxy M32, that may be the residual core of a galaxy that once collided with the Andromeda galaxy; (e) dark dust lanes across myriad stars. Image credit: NASA / ESA / B. Williams, University of Washington.

Hubble’s Photomosaic of Andromeda Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars

Jan 20, 2025 by News Staff

A century ago, the American astronomer Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called ‘spiral nebula’ was approximately 2.5 million light years...

Forensic facial reconstruction of another Australopithecus species - A. afarensis. Image credit: Cicero Moraes / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Australopithecus Didn’t Regularly Eat Meat, New Study Shows

Jan 20, 2025 by News Staff

Australopithecus had a variable but plant-based diet, according to an analysis of stable isotope data from seven hominin specimens dating back 3.5 million...

This Hubble image shows the Tarantula Nebula, which lies about 163,000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Dorado. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / C. Murray.

Hubble Space Telescope Observes Outskirts of Tarantula Nebula

Jan 20, 2025 by News Staff

A new Hubble image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies. This Hubble image...

Life reconstruction of Tameryraptor markgrafi. Image credit: Joschua Knüppe.

Paleontologists Describe New Species of Predatory Dinosaur

Jan 17, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur based on depictions of the now-destroyed specimen from...

An archaic hominin. Image credit: Ninara / CC BY 2.0.

Homo erectus Thrived in Steppe-Desert Landscapes One Million Years Ago, New Study Suggests

Jan 16, 2025 by News Staff

Homo erectus, an early member of the genus Homo, successfully navigated harsher and more arid terrains for longer in Eastern Africa than previously thought,...

An artist’s impression of the Milky Way Galaxy, based on data from ESA’s Gaia space telescope. Image credit: ESA / Gaia / DPAC / Stefan Payne-Wardenaar.

Gaia Unveils Most Detailed Map Yet of Milky Way, Completes Sky-Scanning Phase of Its Mission

Jan 16, 2025 by News Staff

Launched on December 19, 2013, the fuel tank of ESA’s star-mapping satellite Gaia is now approaching empty, but this is far from the end of the mission....

Predicted suitable distribution and morphospace of the modern and fossil snow leopards. Image credit: Jianhao Ye.

Snow Leopards Dispersed Out of Tibetan Plateau Multiple Times, Researchers Say

Jan 15, 2025 by News Staff

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a large feline unique to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its surrounding areas. How this apex predator gradually adapted...

An octopus at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island. Image credit: University of Southern California.

Nervous System in Octopus Arms is Separated into Segments, Study Finds

Jan 15, 2025 by News Staff

The octopus has a motor control challenge of enormous complexity. Each of its eight arms is a muscular hydrostat, a soft-bodied structure that lacks a...

The WASP-132 system contains a hot Jupiter (foreground), an inner super-Earth (transiting in front of the orange host star) and the cold planet WASP-132d. Image credit: Thibaut Roger, Université de Genève.

Long-Period Giant Exoplanet Discovered in Multi-Planet System WASP-132

Jan 15, 2025 by News Staff

WASP-132 is a unique multi-planet system in that both an inner rocky planet and the newly-discovered outer giant planet are in a system with a hot-Jupiter...

Handaxes made on side-struck flakes (a-c) and Kombewa flakes (d-f) from Melka Wakena, Ethiopia. Image credit: Tegenu Gossa & Erella Hovers, doi: 10.1007/s12520-024-02072-8.

New Research Explores Decision-Making Processes of Early Hominin Tool-Makers

Jan 15, 2025 by News Staff

Paleoanthropologists have characterized the properties of raw stone materials that were selected and used by Early Pleistocene tool-makers at an Acheulian...

This image of the carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet star WR 140 was captured by Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) in September 2023. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / E. Lieb, University of Denver / R. Lau, NSF’s NOIRLab / J. Hoffman, University of Denver.

Webb Spots Shells of Carbon-Rich Dust around Wolf-Rayet 140

Jan 15, 2025 by News Staff

Wolf-Rayet 140 (also known as WR 140 or HD 193793) is a system of two massive stars located some 5,000 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus....

View of the three-dimensional map on the floor of Ségognole 3 rock shelter. Image credit: Médard Thiry.

Archaeologists Discover What May Be World’s Oldest Three-Dimensional Map

Jan 14, 2025 by News Staff

The Paleolithic rock shelter of Ségognole 3 in the Paris Basin contains a miniature representation of the surrounding landscape, says a team of archaeologists...

Word rain of environment- and health-related GPT-fabricated, questionable full-text papers. Image credit: Haider et al., doi: 10.37016/mr-2020-156.

GPT-Fabricated Scientific Papers Flood Google Scholar, Scientists Say

Jan 14, 2025 by News Staff

In a new study published in the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, researchers from the University of Borås, Lund University and the Swedish...

Map of the geographical locations of the ancient individuals in the study and timeline showing the dates of the individuals in archaeological groups. Image credit: Saag et al., doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adr0695.

Ancient DNA Analysis Reveals Diverse Range of Ancestries in Ukraine Through Time

Jan 14, 2025 by Natali Anderson

To study migration and mobility history in the Ukraine region, with a particular focus on migrating groups during the Iron Age and the Medieval period,...

In this artist’s concept, matter is stripped from a white dwarf (sphere at lower right) orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. Image credit: NASA / Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University.

XMM-Newton Detects Mysterious X-Ray Oscillations in Supermassive Black Hole

Jan 14, 2025 by News Staff

In 2018, astronomers observed that the corona of 1ES 1927+654, an actively accreting, 1.4-million-solar-mass black hole located in a galaxy around 270...

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