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Brain of Victoriapithecus macinessi visualized for the first time using high-resolution X-ray imaging. Scale bar - 1 cm. Image credit: Lauren A. Gonzales et al.

Victoriapithecus: Paleontologists Visualize Brain of 15-M-Year-Old Monkey

Jul 7, 2015 by News Staff

According to an international team of scientists, the ancient monkey, known as Victoriapithecus, had tiny but remarkably wrinkled brain. Brain of Victoriapithecus...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft obtained this image on 01 July 2015 from a distance of 7.8 million miles (12.5 million km), prior to the July 4 anomaly that sent the probe into safe mode. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

New Horizons Mission Releases Color Photo of Dwarf Planet Pluto

Jul 7, 2015 by News Staff

A new color image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft shows a series of striking dark regularly-spaced spots along Pluto’s equator. NASA’s New Horizons...

Flexamia whitcombi, male (top) and female. Image credit: Andrew Hicks.

Flexamia whitcombi: New Species of Leafhopper Discovered in New Jersey

Jul 6, 2015 by News Staff

Entomologist Dr Andrew Hicks from the University of Colorado has described a new species of the leafhopper genus Flexamia from the New Jersey Pine Barrens,...

NuSTAR Discovers Five Hidden Black Holes

Jul 6, 2015 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) space observatory, astronomers have detected X-rays from five supermassive black holes previously...

New Horizons mission’s first map of the dwarf planet Pluto is in approximate true color. Left: map of the planet’s northern hemisphere composed using black-and-white images from the LORRI instrument. Right: map of Pluto’s colors created using data from the Ralph instrument. Center: combined map, produced by merging the LORRI and Ralph data. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

Another Red Planet? New Horizons Data Reveal True Color of Pluto

Jul 6, 2015 by News Staff

Planetary researchers involved in NASA’s New Horizons mission combined the latest black and white map of Pluto’s surface features with a map of the...

Rosetta NavCam image taken on 14 March 2015 at 85.7 km from the center of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; it has been cleaned to remove the more obvious bad pixels and cosmic ray artefacts, and intensities have been scaled. Image credit: ESA / Rosetta / NAVCAM / CC BY-SA IGO 3.0.

67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Could Harbor Alien Life, Say UK Scientists

Jul 6, 2015 by News Staff

Two planetary scientists from the UK – Prof Chandra Wickramasinghe of the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology and Dr Max Wallis of the University...

This image shows the Milky Way-like spiral galaxy LEDA 89996. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA.

Hubble Sees Milky Way-Like Galaxy

Jul 6, 2015 by News Staff

The subject of this Hubble image is LEDA 89996, a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Dorado (Swordfish). This image shows the Milky Way-like spiral...

Tetragnathid spider is using silk as anchor. Image credit: Alex Hyde.

Spiders Can Travel Across Oceans Like Ships, Scientists Say

Jul 3, 2015 by News Staff

According to a team of biologists headed by Dr Morito Hayashi of the Natural History Museum in London, UK, seafaring spiders use their legs as sails and...

An artist impression of Huanansaurus ganzhouensis. Image credit: Chuang Zhao.

Huanansaurus ganzhouensis: New Feathered Dinosaur Discovered in China

Jul 3, 2015 by Natali Anderson

A remarkable new genus and species of oviraptorid dinosaur has been unearthed in the Ganzhou area of Jiangxi Province, southern China. An artist impression...

The seahorse’s tail is made up of about 36 square-like segments, each composed of four L-shaped corner plates that progressively decrease in size along the length of the tail. Image credit: Shellac / CC BY 2.0.

Seahorse’s Square Tail Could Inspire Future Breakthroughs in Biomedicine, Robotics

Jul 3, 2015 by News Staff

Researchers studying the seahorse’s tail have found that square-shaped tails are better when both grasping and armor are needed. The finding could lead...

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

New Study Sheds Light on Evolutionary Biology of Woolly Mammoths

Jul 3, 2015 by News Staff

A new study led by Dr Vincent Lynch from the University of Chicago has identified extensive genetic changes responsible for what makes a woolly mammoth...

This family portrait, a composite of the Pluto system, includes the dwarf planet and its five known moons: Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

New Horizons Captures Family Portrait of Pluto System

Jul 3, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has taken an amazing photo of Pluto and its five moons: Charon, Nix, Hydra, Styx and Kerberos. This family portrait,...

The Vitruvian Man, a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci around 1490.

New Genetic Research Suggests Humans Evolved To Be Smarter, Taller

Jul 2, 2015 by News Staff

Those who are born to parents from diverse genetic backgrounds tend to be faster-thinking and taller than others, a new study led by Dr Peter Joshi of...

New images show two very different faces of Pluto, one with a series of strange spots. About half of the dwarf planet is imaged, which means features shown near the bottom are at the equatorial line. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

NASA Scientists Release New Color Images of Pluto, Charon

Jul 2, 2015 by News Staff

Scientists with NASA’s New Horizons mission have combined black-and-white images of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, from New Horizons’ LORRI imager...

Specimen of Babibasiliscus alxi: photographs in right lateral, dorsal, and ventral views. Image credit: Jack Conrad.

Babibasiliscus alxi: New ‘Jesus Lizard’ Species Identified from Wyoming Fossil

Jul 2, 2015 by News Staff

A new species of basilisk (or so-called Jesus lizard, named so for their ability to walk on water) that lived about 48 million years ago during Eocene,...

The saber-toothed cat (Smilodon sp.). Image credit: Charles R. Knight.

New Study Suggests Rapid Canine Growth in Saber-Toothed Cats

Jul 2, 2015 by News Staff

A new study reported in the journal PLoS ONE shows that the teeth of the fearsome saber-toothed cat (Smilodon fatalis) fully emerged later in life than...

Active pits on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Image credit: Jean-Baptiste Vincent et al.

ESA’s Rosetta Sees Active Pits on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Jul 2, 2015 by News Staff

In a new study published online in the journal Nature, 18 almost circular pits have been identified in the northern hemisphere of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko....

This image shows the open star cluster NGC 2367. Image credit: ESO / G. Beccari.

Astronomers Capture Stunning View of Open Cluster NGC 2367

Jul 1, 2015 by News Staff

Using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, astronomers captured an extraordinary image of a young open...

Light micrograph of a warnowiid dinoflagellate: double arrowhead points to the ocelloid, and arrow to the posterior cell extension. Scale bar – 10 μm. Image credit: Mona Hoppenrath et al., doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-116.

Single-Celled Planktonic Organisms Have Animal-Like Eyes, Scientists Say

Jul 1, 2015 by News Staff

According to a research team headed by Prof Brian Leander of the University of British Columbia’s Departments of Botany and Zoology, single-celled organisms...