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Evidence Shows Prehistoric South Africans Used Milk-Based Paint 49,000 Years Ago

A 49,000-year-old stone flake from the Sibudu cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Scale bar - 1 cm. Image credit: Villa P et al.
Jul 1, 2015 by News Staff

A group of archaeologists headed by Dr Paola Villa from the University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, Colorado, has discovered a mixture of ochre and casein from milk dating to 49,000 years ago that Stone Age South Africans may have used to adorn themselves with or to decorate stone or wooden slabs. A 49,000-year-old stone flake from the Sibudu cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Scale bar – 1 cm. Image credit: Villa P et al. Ochre powder production...

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Geophilus hadesi, male specimen in the Lukina jama - Trojama cave system, at -980 m below the surface. Image credit: J. Bedek.

Geophilus hadesi: New Species of Cave-Dwelling Centipede Discovered

Jul 1, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by Prof Pavel Stoev of the National Museum of Natural History and Pensoft Publishers in Bulgaria has described a new species of...

An artist’s concept of Pluto. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

New Horizons Detects Frozen Methane on Pluto

Jul 1, 2015 by News Staff

Using data from Ralph, a visible and infrared imager/spectrometer aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, scientists have detected frozen methane on the...

Prevalence of diabetes worldwide in 2000 (per 1,000 inhabitants). Image credit: Lokal_Profil / CC BY-SA 2.5.

Scientists Discover New Genetic Form of Type 2 Diabetes

Jun 30, 2015 by News Staff

A new inherited form of type 2 diabetes and obesity has been discovered by a team of scientists co-led by Dr Anthony Goldstone and Prof Alexandra Blakemore...

This is an artistic impression of the Kepler-444 planetary system. Image credit: Tiago Campante / Peter Devine.

Even 11+ Billion-Year-Old Stars Have Earth-Like Planets

Jun 30, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational team of astronomers has determined precise ages and other fundamental properties of 33 Kepler stars with the so-called ‘solar-like oscillations.’...

Acquired on 27 June 2015, this first image from Sentinel-2A covers the Po Valley, framed by the Alps in the north and the coastal mountains of France and Italy in the south. The stripes observed over water are expected artifacts due to the arrangement of the detectors in the Sentinel-2A’s MSI instrument. Image credit: Copernicus data / ESA.

ESA’s Sentinel-2A Satellite Returns Its First Color Images of Earth

Jun 30, 2015 by News Staff

Just four days after being lofted into orbit, European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2A satellite delivered its first images of Earth. Acquired on 27 June...

Chestnut-crowned babblers (Pomatostomus ruficeps), SW Queensland, Australia. Image credit: Aviceda / CC BY-SA 3.0.

New Study Reveals Language Precursors in Australian Babblers

Jun 30, 2015 by News Staff

A new study led by Dr Sabrina Engesser from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, has revealed that the chestnut-crowned babbler (Pomatostomus ruficeps)...

A close-up of the bright spots on Ceres. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA.

Dawn Captures Rare Image of Ceres’ Bright Spots at Dusk

Jun 30, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has beamed back a new photo of a cluster of bright spots on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres. The space probe took this image...

The globular cluster Omega Centauri is seen in all its splendor in this image captured with the WFI camera from ESO’s La Silla Observatory. The image shows only the central part of the cluster. Image credit: ESO.

Astronomers Solve Mystery of ‘Blue Hook’ Stars

Jun 29, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers, led by Dr Francesca D’Antona from the INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy, has found that the so-called...

The reconstructed skeleton of Sefapanosaurus zastronensis. Image credit: University of the Witwatersrand / Sci-News.com.

Sefapanosaurus: New Dinosaur Found in South Africa

Jun 29, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational team of paleontologists has discovered the remains of a new species of sauropodomorph dinosaur that roamed what is now South Africa at...

Collinsium ciliosum. Image credit: Jie Yang.

Collinsium ciliosum: Cambrian Spiky Worm Discovered in China

Jun 29, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists, co-led by Dr Xi-guang Zhanga and Dr Jie Yang of Yunnan University, has described a new species of super-armored...

Rats show regret too. Image credit: Duke University.

Rats ‘Dream’ about Future, New Study Finds

Jun 29, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal eLife, when rats (Rattus rattus) sleep or rest, their brains simulate journeys to a desired goal. Rats...

This image shows the compact dwarf galaxy SBS 1415+437. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA.

Hubble Captures Rare Wolf-Rayet Galaxy

Jun 29, 2015 by News Staff

The Advanced Camera for Surveys (or ACS), one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s advanced instruments, has taken a spectacularly detailed image of a galaxy...

This image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 16, 2015. The bright rings of Saturn can be seen at left. North on Dione is up and rotated 44 degrees to the left. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.

Cassini Captures Stunning Images of Dione

Jun 26, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s Cassini probe obtained new images of Saturn’s moon Dione during a close flyby on June 16, 2015. This image was taken in visible light with the...

Corals along the Northern part of the Great Barrier Reef. Image credit: Line K Bay / Australian Institute of Marine Science.

Some Corals Have Heat-Tolerant Genes, New Study Shows

Jun 26, 2015 by News Staff

Some reef-building corals have genetic variants necessary to tolerate warm waters, according to a new study co-led by Dr Line Bay from the Australian Institute...

Aerial view of Pueblo Bonito. Image credit: Bob Adams / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Scarlet Macaws Point to Early Emergence of Complex Pueblo Society

Jun 26, 2015 by News Staff

Carbon 14 dating of scarlet macaw remains from Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico indicates that interaction between the pre-Hispanic Pueblo people...

Helheim Glacier. Image credit: Nick Selmes / Swansea University.

Scientists Determine What Causes Glacial Earthquakes

Jun 26, 2015 by News Staff

A group of geoscientists led by Dr Tavi Murray of Swansea University, UK, has shown that during the glacier edge breaking process, known as calving, the...

Artist’s impression of a black hole feasting on matter from its companion star in a binary system. Image credit: ESA / ATG medialab.

V404 Cygni: Astronomers Detect Signs of Extraordinary Activity in Binary System

Jun 26, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using a fleet of orbiting telescopes, including ESA’s Integral satellite, NASA’s Swift satellite and the Japanese MAXI telescope, have...

The rosy-faced lovebird (Agapornis roseicollis). Image credit: David González Romero.

Lovebirds Can Rotate Their Heads at Lightning Fast Speeds

Jun 25, 2015 by News Staff

High-speed flight recordings of lovebirds making quick in flight turns reveal how these birds improve sight and shorten blur by rotating their head at...

The huge halo around the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 appears on this image. The image also reveals many other galaxies forming the Virgo Cluster, of which Messier 87 is the largest member. Image credit: Chris Mihos, Case Western Reserve University / ESO.

Astronomers Uncover Evidence of Messier 87’s Cannibalistic Past

Jun 25, 2015 by News Staff

A giant elliptical galaxy called Messier 87 merged with a medium-sized spiral galaxy in the last billion years, according to a comprehensive study of 300...

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