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Astronomers Discover Monstrous Black Hole in Early Universe

This illustration shows a black hole that grew faster than its host galaxy. Image credit: Michael S. Helfenbein / Yale University.
Jul 13, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational team of astronomers has spotted an oversized black hole in the center of a typical star-forming galaxy, called CID-947. This illustration shows a black hole that grew faster than its host galaxy. Image credit: Michael S. Helfenbein / Yale University. CID-947’s black hole was originally discovered using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and was then detected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and by ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra...

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Chasms, craters, and a dark north polar region are revealed in this image of Pluto’s largest moon Charon taken by New Horizons on July 11, 2015. The annotated version includes a diagram showing Charon’s north pole, equator, and central meridian, with the features highlighted. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

Latest Image of Pluto’s Moon Charon from New Horizons

Jul 13, 2015 by News Staff

A new image of the largest of Pluto’s five known moons shows various craters and chasms (canyons). Chasms, craters, and a dark north polar region are...

This image of Pluto reveals intriguing geologic details that are of keen interest to New Horizons team members. This image, taken early the morning of July 11, 2015, shows newly-resolved linear features above the equatorial region that intersect, suggestive of polygonal shapes. This image was captured when the spacecraft was 2.5 million miles (4 million km) from Pluto. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Ready for Historic Pluto Flyby

Jul 13, 2015 by News Staff

After a journey of nine and a half years and three billion miles, NASA’s New Horizons is ready for a close look at the dwarf planet Pluto and its five...

This Hubble image shows the galaxy ESO 381-12. The strikingly uneven structure and the clusters of stars that orbit around the galaxy suggest that ESO 381-12 may have been part of a dramatic collision sometime in its relatively recent past. Image credit: NASA / ESA / P. Goudfrooij, STScI.

Hubble Zooms in on Ghostly Shells of Lenticular Galaxy

Jul 10, 2015 by News Staff

The Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the galaxy ESO 381-12. This Hubble image shows...

A drainage pipe found at the Legio VI Ferrata’s camp site. Image credit: Jezreel Valley Regional Project.

Roman Legionary Camp Uncovered in Israel

Jul 10, 2015 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the Jezreel Valley Regional Project say they have unearthed the remains of a 1,900-year-old camp of Legio VI Ferrata (Sixth Ironclad...

To maintain mutualism, carnivorous pitcher plants specifically appeal to their animal partners’ perception. Image credit: Michael G. Schöner et al / C.C. Lee / M.D. Tuttle.

Pitcher Plants Attract Bats with Echo-Reflecting Structures, Says New Study

Jul 10, 2015 by News Staff

The study, published in the journal Current Biology, shows that carnivorous plants have reflective structures that are acoustically attractive for mutualistic...

New Horizons was about 3.7 million miles (6 million km) from Charon when it snapped this image on July 8, 2015. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

New Horizons Snaps New Image of Pluto’s Moon Charon

Jul 10, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons space probe, which will do a close flyby of the Pluto system on July 14, has sent back a new image of Charon, the largest of Pluto’s...

Giant panda cub Xiao Liwu and his mother Bai Yun at the San Diego Zoo. Image credit: Natali Anderson / San Diego Zoo.

Giant Pandas Have Exceptionally Low Metabolic Rate, New Study Finds

Jul 10, 2015 by Natali Anderson

According to a new study led by Dr Yonggang Nie from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Zoology, bamboo-eating giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)...

The early bumblebee (Bombus pratorum), one of the smaller bumblebees. Image credit: Bernie Kohl.

Global Warming Causing Great Loss of Bumblebee Habitat, Say Researchers

Jul 9, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists headed by Dr Jeremy Kerr from the University of Ottawa, Canada, has discovered that climate change is rapidly shrinking the area...

Monkey experiment: primates were seated in separate rooms, each facing a computer monitor showing the virtual avatar arm from a first person perspective. Image credit: Arjun Ramakrishnan et al.

Neuroscientists Successfully Demonstrate Rat and Monkey ‘Brainets’

Jul 9, 2015 by News Staff

A team of neuroscientists at Duke University published two separate studies today, one involving rats and the other involving rhesus macaque monkeys, that...

This artist’s impression shows a supernova and associated gamma-ray burst driven by a rapidly spinning magnetar. Image credit: ESO.

Ultra-Long Gamma-Ray Bursts are Driven by Magnetars, Astronomers Say

Jul 9, 2015 by News Staff

A team of astronomers led by Dr Jochen Greiner of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany, has demonstrated a link between the bright...

Life reconstruction of Wendiceratops pinhornensis. Image credit: Danielle Dufault.

Wendiceratops: New Genus and Species of Horned Dinosaur Discovered in Canada

Jul 9, 2015 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists has discovered a new genus and species of horned dinosaur, called Wendiceratops pinhornensis, in southern Alberta, Canada. Life...

This image of Pluto from New Horizons was received on July 8, 2015, and has been combined with color information from the spacecraft’s Ralph instrument. The image was taken on July 7, when New Horizons was 5 million miles (8 million km) from the dwarf planet. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

Latest Image of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons

Jul 9, 2015 by News Staff

The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has snapped yet another amazing view of the dwarf planet. This image...

High-energy X-rays from NuSTAR are shown in blue; low-energy X-rays from Hinode are green; and extreme UV light from SDO is yellow and red. All three telescopes captured their solar images around the same time on April 29, 2015. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / GSFC / JAXA.

Space Observatories See Active Sun in UV Light and X-Rays

Jul 8, 2015 by News Staff

Active regions of the Sun are highlighted in this composite image combining observations from a fleet of sun-monitoring satellites: NASA’s NuSTAR (Nuclear...

This Hubble image shows the cluster of galaxies MACS0416.1-2403. Bright yellow ‘elliptical’ galaxies can be seen, surrounded by numerous blue spiral and amorphous galaxies. Gravitational arcs can also be seen. This image forms the test data that the machine learning algorithm is applied to, having not previously seen the image. Image credit: NASA / ESA / J. Geach / A. Hocking.

Astronomers Teach AI to ‘See’ Astronomical Images

Jul 8, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield, UK, have taught a machine to automatically recognize and classify galaxies in astronomical...

Conus episcopatus, 6.4 cm, Thailand. Image credit: Alexander Medvedev / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Venom Toxins of Predatory Cone Snail Could Hold Promise for Cancer Patients

Jul 8, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists headed by Prof Paul Alewood of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, has discovered more than 3,000 new peptide toxins...

The black phosphorus crystal structure is composed of puckered honeycomb layers with an interlayer distance of 0.5 nm. Image credit: V. Tayari et al.

Black Phosphorus: Alternative to Silicon for Future Electronics

Jul 8, 2015 by News Staff

A new study led by Dr Thomas Szkopek of McGill University suggests that black phosphorus could help researchers surmount one of the big challenges for...

This map of the dwarf planet Pluto was created from images taken from June 27 to July 3 by New Horizons’ LORRI instrument, combined with color data from the space probe’s Ralph instrument. The center of the map corresponds to Pluto’s side that will be seen close-up during New Horizons’ July 14 flyby. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

NASA Scientists Create Color Map of Pluto

Jul 8, 2015 by News Staff

Scientists with NASA’s New Horizons mission have produced a color map of the dwarf planet Pluto. This map of the dwarf planet Pluto was created from...

This image shows the quintuple star system J093010 (center). Image credit: Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg / SIMBAD.

Astronomers Discover Quintuple Star System

Jul 7, 2015 by News Staff

A team of astronomers led by Dr Marcus Lohr of the Open University, UK, has discovered the first five star system containing two eclipsing binary stars. This...

Taxis in New York City. Image credit: Prayitno Hadinata / CC BY 2.0.

Robotic Taxis Could Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Scientists Say

Jul 7, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, per-mile greenhouse gas emissions of an electric vehicle deployed as an autonomous...

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