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Kinyongia msuyae: New Species of Chameleon Found in Tanzania

Kinyongia msuyae. Image credit: Tim Davenport / WCS.
Feb 4, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A team of scientists led by Dr. Michele Menegon of the Museo delle Scienze in Trento, Italy, has described a previously undocumented species of chameleon from the Livingstone and Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Kinyongia msuyae in life, Livingstone Mountains, Tanzania: adult male (upper), close up of male head (lower left), adult female (lower right). Image credit: Michele Menegon et al. Dr. Menegon and co-authors proposed the scientific name Kinyongia...

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Fresco on the wall of an early Christian church in an ancient underground city near Nevsehir, Cappadocia, Turkey. Image credit: Nevsehir Castle Urban Transformation Project / Nevsehir Municipality / Turkey’s Housing Development Administration.

Early Christian Church Found in Turkey

Feb 4, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of Turkish archaeologists have found an early Christian church in an ancient underground settlement near modern-day Nevsehir, the capital district...

This image shows part of the Rho Ophiuchi region; a much enlarged close-up infrared view of the young star J1628 from the Hubble Space Telescope is shown as an insert. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Digitized Sky Survey 2.

Astronomers Measure Temperature of Dust Grains in Young Star’s Protoplanetary Disc

Feb 3, 2016 by News Staff

A group of European astronomers led by Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux scientist Stephane Guilloteau has measured the temperature of large...

A close-up of the common bed bug (Cimex lectularius). Image credit: Armed Forces Pest Management Bureau.

Scientists Sequence Genome of Common Bed Bug

Feb 2, 2016 by News Staff

A large multinational team of scientists has successfully sequenced the whole genome of the common bed bug (Cimex lectularius), uncovering several traits...

The smallest lattice in the world: its struts and braces are 0.2 µm in diameter; total size of the lattice is about 10 µm. Image credit: Jens Bauer / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Researchers Create Smallest Ever Lattice Structure

Feb 2, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, has created a glassy carbon nanolattice with single struts shorter than 1 μm...

Cut marks on tortoise humerus from Qesem Cave. Image credit: Ruth Blasco et al.

Early Humans Ate Tortoises 400,000 Years Ago

Feb 2, 2016 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists in Israel has uncovered evidence of tortoise bones at the Middle Pleistocene (420,000 to 300,000 years ago) site of Qesem Cave,...

LEISA data point to more prevalent water ice on the surface of Pluto than previously thought. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

Relatively Large Amounts of Water Ice Found on Pluto’s Surface

Feb 2, 2016 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons science team used data from the Ralph/Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA) — a short-wavelength, IR, spectral imager...

Gel model of a fetal brain after being immersed in liquid solvent, the resulting compression led to the formation of folds similar in size and shape to real brains. Image credit: Tuomas Tallinen et al.

Scientists Replicate Folding Human Brain in 3D

Feb 2, 2016 by News Staff

A variety of hypotheses on how the brain folds have been proposed but none have been directly used to make testable predictions. Now, a group of scientists...

This artist’s concept shows an active supermassive black hole with a jet streaming outward at nearly the speed of light. Such black holes are often found at the hearts of elliptical galaxies. Not all black holes have jets, but when they do, the jets can be pointed in any direction. If a jet happens to shine at Earth, the object is called a blazar. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources: Important Piece of Puzzle Coming in Place

Feb 1, 2016 by News Staff

This artist’s concept shows an active supermassive black hole with a jet streaming outward at nearly the speed of light. Such black holes are often found...

The great tit (Parus major). Image credit: Koos Dansen.

Researchers Sequence Genome of Great Tit

Feb 1, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Veronika Laine from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and Dr. Martien Groenen from Wageningen University,...

NGC 1487, pictured in this Hubble WFPC2 image, is the result of a merger between two or more smaller galaxies. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

NGC 1487: Hubble Space Telescope Captures Beautiful Galactic Merger

Feb 1, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken an amazing picture of a peculiar galaxy, NGC 1487. NGC 1487, pictured in this Hubble WFPC2 image, is the...

This false-color image shows the dwarf planet Ceres. Scientists use false color to examine differences in surface materials. The color blue on Ceres is generally associated with bright material, found in more than 130 locations, and seems to be consistent with salts. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA.

Colorful Animation Shows Simulated Flight over Dwarf Planet Ceres

Jan 29, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

This breathtaking animation, produced by a team of scientists at the German Aerospace Center, shows a simulated flight over the surface of Ceres, based...

The hummingbird glyph and its surroundings in the Nasca site as seen by standard photography, top, and by NASA’s UAVSAR radar. Dark areas in the UAVSAR image are where the site has been disturbed. Image credit: Google, Digital Globe / NASA / JPL-Caltech.

NASA Airborne Radar ‘Sees’ Nasca Lines

Jan 29, 2016 by News Staff

NASA’s Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), an airborne radar developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, proved...

This composite image shows the size and location of the Smith Cloud on the sky. The cloud is 15 degrees across in angular size - the width of an outstretched hand at arm’s length. The apparent size of the full Moon is added for comparison. The Smith Cloud appears in false-color, radio wavelengths. The visible-light image of the background star field shows the cloud’s location in the direction of the summer constellation Aquila. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Z. Levay, STScI / B. Saxton / F. Lockman / NRAO / AUI / NSF / A. Mellinger.

Astronomers Shed Light on Chemical Composition, Origin of Mysterious Smith Cloud

Jan 29, 2016 by News Staff

Scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found faint chemical traces of our Milky Way Galaxy lurking inside the Smith Cloud, a gigantic...

BM 34757, one of the Babylonian cuneiform tablets translated by Prof. Ossendrijver. Image credit: Mathieu Ossendrijver, Humboldt University / British Museum.

Babylonian Astronomers Used Geometry to Calculate Jupiter’s Position

Jan 29, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to Prof. Mathieu Ossendrijver of Humboldt University in Germany, Babylonian astronomers used geometry to calculate the position of Jupiter —...

This Hubble image shows the globular star cluster NGC 1783. It is one of the biggest globular clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way Galaxy. First observed by the British astronomer John Herschel in 1835, this star cluster is approximately 160,000 light-years from our Solar System, and has a mass around 170,000 times that of the Sun. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, geckzilla.com.

Study Reveals Why Globular Clusters Can Be Home to Different Generations of Stars

Jan 28, 2016 by News Staff

According to a new study published this week in the journal Nature, globular clusters make new stars by adopting stray cosmic gas and dust. This Hubble...

The Sulawesi snouter (Hyorhinomys stuempkei). Image credit: Jake Esselstyn / Louisiana State University.

Top 20 New Species Discovered in 2015 – Part 2

Jan 28, 2016 by Sergio Prostak

A shape-shifting frog from Ecuador, a giant virus from Siberia, and a bioluminescent shark are among the twenty most bizarre species discovered in the...

White-cheeked macaques (Macaca leucogenys), juveniles of different age. Image credit: Cheng Li et al.

Top 20 New Species Discovered in 2015

Jan 28, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A shape-shifting frog from Ecuador, a giant virus from Siberia, a bioluminescent shark, a ruby seadragon, and the world’s smallest snail are among the...

Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis). Tambako The Jaguar / CC BY-ND 2.0.

Ancient Chinese Domesticated Leopard Cats 5,500 Years Ago

Jan 27, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

The 5,500 year old cat remains found more than a decade ago in China have been identified as the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) by an international...

This VLT image shows the irregular dwarf galaxy IC 1613. Image credit: ESO.

VLT Survey Telescope Captures Incredible Image of Nearby Dwarf Galaxy

Jan 27, 2016 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope have assembled this colorful image of the small galaxy IC 1613. This VLT image shows the irregular dwarf...

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