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Hubble Space Telescope Views Globular Cluster Messier 22

This is a close-up of the central region of the globular cluster Messier 22, as observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA.
Apr 6, 2015 by News Staff

This newly released Hubble image shows Messier 22, the brightest globular cluster visible from the northern hemisphere. This is a close-up of the central region of the globular cluster Messier 22, as observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA. Messier 22 is located in the constellation Sagittarius, approximately 10,400 light-years away. It was the first globular cluster to be discovered. German astronomer Johann...

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Scanning electron micrograph of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, yellow. Credit: NIAID.

Cigarette Smoke Makes Methicillin-Resistant Staphilococcus aureus More Aggressive

Apr 6, 2015 by News Staff

A new study, led by Dr Laura Crotty Alexander of the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System and the University of California San Diego, shows that...

Visualization of magnetic fields. Image credit: Windell Oskay / CC BY 2.0.

Study Reveals Surprising Behavior in Frustrated Magnets

Apr 4, 2015 by News Staff

In a new study reported in the journal Science, Princeton University physicists tested the frustrated magnets – so-named because they should be magnetic...

A growing black hole can be seen at the center of a faraway galaxy in this artist’s concept. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Black Holes Don’t Erase Information, Study Shows

Apr 3, 2015 by News Staff

Some scientists have argued for decades that black holes are the ultimate vaults, entities that suck in information and then evaporate without leaving...

The hoard included two silver coins, rings, bracelets, earrings, and a small stone weight. Image credit: Clara Amit / Israel Antiquities Authority.

2,300-Year-Old Hoard of Silver Coins, Jewelry Found in Israel

Apr 3, 2015 by News Staff

A team of amateur speleologists has found a small cache of rare coins, silver and bronze artifacts in a remote stalactite cave in northern Israel. The...

Swift parrot (Lathamus discolor) on Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia. Image credit: JJ Harrison / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Tasmanian Swift Parrot is on Brink of Extinction, Finds News Study

Apr 3, 2015 by News Staff

The critically endangered swift parrot (Lathamus discolor) could become extinct within less than two decades, says a new study published online in the...

Toxic Panthalassa May Have Triggered end-Triassic Mass Extinction, Scientists Say

Apr 3, 2015 by News Staff

A mass extinction some 201 million years ago may have been triggered by changes in the biochemical balance of Panthalassa (also known as the Panthalassic...

VLA Observations Shed More Light on How Massive Stars Form

Apr 3, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational team of astronomers, led Dr Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, used the Karl G. Jansky Very Large...

Fossil cone shells and their original colors, from top to bottom rows: Conasprella stenostoma, Conus lombardii, and C. carlottae. Image credit: Jonathan Hendricks / San Jose State University; adapted by Sci-News.com.

UV Light Reveals Original Colors of 5-Million-Year-Old Cone Shells

Apr 2, 2015 by News Staff

San Jose State University researcher Dr Jonathan Hendricks has used ultraviolet (UV) light to reveal and characterize the original shell coloration patterns...

This Hubble image shows ghostly green filaments, lying within galaxy 2MASX J22014163+1151237. This filament was illuminated by a blast of radiation from a quasar - a very luminous and compact region that surrounds the supermassive black hole at the center of its host galaxy. Its bright green hue is a result of ionized oxygen, which glows brightly at green wavelengths. Image credit: NASA / ESA / W. Keel, University of Alabama.

Hubble Captures Mysterious ‘Quasar Ghosts’

Apr 2, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have photographed eight unusual looped structures – ephemeral ‘ghosts’ of quasars that flickered...

In situ view of the 17th century camel; inserted map shows the geographical position of the town Tulln in Austria with a triangle. Image credit: Galik A et al.

Archaeologists Unearth Ottoman War Camel in Austria

Apr 2, 2015 by News Staff

A group of archaeologists led by Dr Alfred Galik of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna has found a complete camel skeleton in a large refuse...

This view from Curiosity rover’s Mastcam shows a network of 2-tone mineral veins at the Garden City area on lower Mount Sharp, Mars. This is a mosaic combining 28 images taken with Mastcam’s right-eye camera, which has a telephoto lens with a focal length of 100 mm. The component images were taken on March 18, 2015, during the 929th Martian day of Curiosity’s work on the Red Planet. The color has been approximately white-balanced to resemble how the scene would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.

Curiosity Spots Intriguing Mineral Veins on Mars

Apr 2, 2015 by News Staff

This March 18, 2015, view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Curiosity rover shows a network of two-tone mineral veins at an area called Garden...

Willy (Wilhelm) the polar bear at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro. Image credit: John / CC BY 2.0.

New Study Evaluates Nutritional Needs of Polar Bears

Apr 2, 2015 by News Staff

Polar bears (Ursus maritimus), increasingly forced on shore due to sea ice loss, may be eating land-based foods, but any nutritional gains are limited...

Forensic facial reconstruction of another Australopithecus species - A. afarensis. Image credit: Cicero Moraes / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Little Foot: Australopithecus Skeleton from Sterkfontein is 3.67 Million Years Old

Apr 1, 2015 by News Staff

The new date places an almost complete skeleton of Australopithecus prometheus from the Sterkfontein cave in South Africa as an older relative of famous...

Further studies are needed to take into consideration the possibility that many modes, or light paths, exist simultaneously in the cavity, Dr Ge and his colleagues said. Their far-field emission patterns may change in different ways, which causes a reduction of the sensitivity to rotation. Image credit: Li Ge et al.

Physicists Find Way to Create Tiny Optical Gyroscope

Apr 1, 2015 by News Staff

According to a group of scientists led by Dr Li Ge from the CUNY’s College of Staten Island, a pair of light waves may hold the key to creating the world’s...

Arabian spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus). Image credit: Andy Mabbett / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Male Mice Sing like Songbirds to Attract Females

Apr 1, 2015 by News Staff

Male mice produce highly complex ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) to seduce females, says a team of biologists led by Duke University Medical Center. Arabian...

The blackpoll warbler (Setophaga striata). The ornithologists found that in some cases, the birds flew more than 2,500 km, non-stop, to reach their destinations. Image credit: William H. Majoros / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Blackpoll Warblers Migrate Thousands of Miles across Atlantic Ocean, Scientists Find

Apr 1, 2015 by News Staff

A team of ornithologists led by William DeLuca of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, reports the first direct evidence that the blackpoll warbler...

The Planck all-sky map at submillimeter wavelengths; the band running through the middle corresponds to dust in the Milky Way Galaxy; the black dots indicate the location of the proto-cluster candidates identified by Planck and subsequently observed by Herschel. The inset images showcase some of the observations made by Herschel’s SPIRE instrument; the contours represent the density of galaxies. Image credit: ESA / Planck Collaboration / H. Dole / D. Guéry / G. Hurier / IAS / University Paris-Sud / CNRS / CNES.

Astronomers Discover Over 200 Young Galactic Clusters in Distant Cosmos

Apr 1, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers using data from two ESA’s space telescopes, Planck and Herschel, has identified more than 200 proto-clusters of...

Wathondara kotejai from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, stacked image with a blue filter. Scale bar - 1 mm. Image credit: Bo Wang et al.

Paleontologists Find 100-Million-Year-Old Evidence of Insect Brood Care

Mar 31, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists from China, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom, has described a new genus and species of an ensign scale insect from mid-Cretaceous...

NIST-F1 Cesium fountain atomic clock, serving as the U.S. time and frequency standard. Image credit: NIST.

New Technique Could Make Atomic Clocks More Accurate

Mar 31, 2015 by News Staff

An international group of physicists led by Prof Vladan Vuletic of MIT has developed a novel technique that can successfully entangle 3,000 atoms using...

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