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InSight: NASA Engineers Begin Testing Next Mars Lander

This artist’s rendition shows the InSight Mars lander spacecraft on the Red Planet. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
May 28, 2015 by News Staff

NASA engineers have begun testing a car-sized Mars lander, dubbed InSight, scheduled to launch in 2016. This artist’s rendition shows the InSight Mars lander spacecraft on the Red Planet. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech. InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) is a NASA Discovery Program mission that will send a lander to the Red Planet, which will delve deeper into the planet’s surface than any...

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A fragment of a pithos found at the Bet Ha-‘Emeq site. Image credit: Nimrod Getzov / Israel Antiquities Authority.

Israeli Archaeologists Find 5,000-Year-Old Seal Impression with Musical Scene

May 28, 2015 by News Staff

Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists excavating at the archaeological site of the Bet Ha-‘Emeq have unearthed a fragment of an Early Bronze Age...

This image of the dwarf planet Pluto was taken May 12. Image credit: NASA / JHU-APL / SwRI.

New Horizons Captures New Images of Pluto and Charon

May 28, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has beamed back its best-yet images of the dwarf planet Pluto and Charon, Pluto’s largest moon. This image, taken May...

Sima de los Huesos hominins lived in what is now Spain about 400,000 years ago. Image credit: © Kennis & Kennis / Madrid Scientific Films.

Sima de los Huesos Hominin Skull Shows Evidence of Earliest Known Murder

May 28, 2015 by News Staff

Wounds identified on a 430,000-year-old hominin skull from the archaeological site of Sima de los Huesos in northern Spain may indicate one of the first...

The left half of the lower jaw of Australopithecus deyiremeda. Image credit: Yohannes Haile-Selassie / Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Australopithecus deyiremeda: New Hominin Species Discovered in Ethiopia

May 27, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational group of anthropologists has described a new human ancestor species that lived in what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia about 3.3 –...

Images of HD 115600 showing a bright nearly edge-on debris ring located just beyond a Pluto-like distance to the star. Image credit: Thayne Currie et al.

Gemini Planet Imager Spots Kuiper Belt-like Dust Ring around HD 115600

May 27, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Gemini Planet Imager at the Gemini South telescope in Chile have identified a disc-shaped bright ring of dust around a nearby young...

Based on new evidence from Jupiter's moon Europa, astronomers hypothesize that chloride salts bubble up from the icy moon's global liquid ocean and reach the frozen surface where they are bombarded with sulfur from volcanoes on Jupiter's innermost large moon, Io (NASA / JPL-Caltech)

NASA Selects Science Instruments for Europa Clipper Mission

May 27, 2015 by News Staff

NASA has announced the selection of science instruments for the Europa Clipper, a future mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa. Based on new evidence from...

This image of the nebula RCW 34 was taken using ESO’s Very Large Telescope in northern Chile. Image credit: ESO.

Astronomers Capture Image of Glowing Nebula RCW 34

May 27, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the FOcal Reducer and low dispersion Spectrograph (FORS) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have released a new image of a spectacular...

Transmission electron micrograph (false-color) of negatively stained SIRV2 particles. Image credit: Nicole Steinmetz et al.

Extremophile Virus SIRV2 Could Help Kill Anthrax, Other Pathogens

May 27, 2015 by News Staff

An unusual virus called Sulfolobus islandicus Rod-shaped Virus 2 (SIRV2 for short) could be a new weapon in the fight against pathogens, says an international...

Atomically thin two-dimensional liquid. Image credit: Pekka Koskinen.

Scientists Predict Existence of Flat Liquid

May 26, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists from Finland has conducted computer simulations that predict the existence of an atomically thin, free-standing 2D liquid phase. Atomically...

Babies are able to learn abstract relations before the first year of life. Image credit: Kang Heungbo.

Babies Can Form Abstract Relations Before They Learn Words

May 26, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Child Development, infants are capable of understanding abstract relations like ‘same’ and ‘different.’ Babies...

The Mexican Jay. Image credit: M. Fuszara.

Mexican Jays Can Detect Nut Properties, Ornithologists Say

May 26, 2015 by News Staff

Using slow-motion video-recording and experiments, an international team of ornithologists has found that the Mexican Jays are able to ‘weigh’ peanuts...

This global view of Io was obtained by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft on 19 September 1997 at a range of more than 500,000 km (310,000 miles). In this image, deposits of sulfur dioxide frost appear in white and grey hues while yellowish and brownish hues are probably due to other sulfurous materials. Bright red materials and ‘black’ spots with low brightness mark areas of recent volcanic activity and are usually associated with high temperatures and surface changes. Image credit: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona.

Astronomers Spot Huge Lava Lake at Volcano Loki on Io

May 26, 2015 by News Staff

Scientists analyzing high-resolution images from the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory in Arizona have discovered an enormous lava lake on Io, the...

Molecular structure of thiophene-1,1-dioxide oligomers and schematic of the molecular junction created using asymmetric area electrodes. Image credit: Brian Capozzi et al.

Scientists Create Single-Molecule Diode

May 26, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists led by Dr Latha Venkataraman of Columbia University has developed a single-molecule diode that may have real-world technological...

The panther chameleon. Image credit: Djordje Grbic et al.

Panther Chameleon is Eleven Separate Species, Scientists Say

May 25, 2015 by News Staff

The panther chameleon, long thought to be a single species, is actually eleven distinct species, according to a team of biologists led by Prof Michel Milinkovitch...

Arabidopsis thaliana by Johann Georg Sturm, 1796.

Scientists Identify Universal Gene Required for Plant Growth at High Temperatures

May 25, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists, co-led by Dr Carlos Alonso-Blanco of the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología in Spain and Dr Sureshkumar Balasubramanian of Monash...

An adult Java sparrow (Lonchura oryzivora) in Honolulu, Hawaii. Image credit: Kim Bridges / CC BY 3.0.

Java Sparrows: Percussionists of Bird World

May 25, 2015 by News Staff

Male Java sparrows (Lonchura oryzivora) produce bill-click sounds along with their songs during courtship displays as well as when they sing to themselves...

This image of the Arches Cluster of young, massive stars was obtained with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA / ESA.

Hubble Zooms in on Arches Cluster

May 25, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of the Arches Cluster, the densest known cluster...

The Siloe Patera structure lies close to the center of this image within the Arabia Terra region of Mars. The image was acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express on November 26, 2014. Image credit: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin / CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

Mars Express May Have Discovered Ancient Supervolcano on Red Planet

May 25, 2015 by News Staff

ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has captured an image of what appears to be the remains of an ancient supervolcano. The image was taken on 26 November 2014,...

Nearly cloud-free view of the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Image credit: NASA / GSFC / MODIS Rapid Response Team.

Researchers Observe Sudden Increase of Ice Loss on Southern Antarctic Peninsula

May 22, 2015 by News Staff

Using measurements of the elevation of the Antarctic ice sheet made by a suite of satellites, a group of scientists led by Dr Bert Wouters from the University...

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