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The newly-discovered bird, the Cryptic treehunter, was formerly confused with the Alagoas foliage-gleaner (photographed November, 2007 in Frei Caneca, Brazil). Image credit: © Ciro Albano, NE Brazil Birding / via Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia.

New Bird Species Discovered in Brazil: Cryptic Treehunter

Nov 30, 2014 by Natali Anderson

Brazilian ornithologists Dr Juan Mazar Barnett and Dr Dante Buzzetti of the Center for Ornithological Studies in São Paulo have discovered a new species...

The nine Muses. Image credit: Ankara University.

Stunning Mosaics Uncovered in Ancient City of Zeugma

Nov 28, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of archaeologists has unearthed three 2,200-year-old, well-preserved glass mosaics at the site of the ancient city of Zeugma in Turkey. The...

Strigamia maritima, a female and eggs. Image: © Carlo Brena.

Genetic Scientists Sequence First Myriapod Genome

Nov 28, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational group of genetic researchers has sequenced the genome of a maritime centipede called Strigamia maritima, enabling them to reconstruct many...

This image of the bright star cluster NGC 3532 was captured by the Wide Field Imager instrument at La Silla Observatory in 2013; some of the stars still shine with a hot bluish color, but many of the more massive ones have become red giants and glow with a rich orange hue. Image credit: ESO / G. Beccari.

European Astronomers Capture Beautiful Image of Star Cluster NGC 3532

Nov 28, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using ESO’s MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope has captured a colorful view of the open star cluster NGC 3532. This image of the bright star...

The ocean currents and their speeds, in cm/s, derived from GOCE data. Image credit: ESA / CNES / CLS.

Scientists Produce New Map of Ocean Currents

Nov 27, 2014 by News Staff

An international group of scientists using data from ESA’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) has created the most accurate...

This image shows the spiral Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151, also known as the Eye of Sauron. Image credit: NASA.

Astronomers Measure Distance to Eye of Sauron (NGC 4151)

Nov 27, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers led by Dr Sebastian Hoenig from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southampton has developed a new method for determining...

The near-Earth space environment is a complex interaction between the magnetic field of our planet, cool plasma moving up from its ionosphere, and hotter plasma coming in from the solar wind. Image credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio.

Scientists Discover Impenetrable Barrier 11,500 km above Earth

Nov 27, 2014 by News Staff

A group of researchers headed by Prof Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has discovered a nearly...

Pentaceratops aquiloniua. Image credit: University of Bath.

Paleontologist Discovers Two New Species of Horned Dinosaurs

Nov 26, 2014 by News Staff

Dr Nick Longrich from the University of Bath, UK, has described two new species of chasmosaurine dinosaurs that roamed the ‘lost island continent’...

This image shows what the Milky Way Galaxy looked like ten billion years ago. Image credit: SURFsara / J. Bédorf / NVIDIA.

What Our Milky Way Galaxy Looked Like 10 Billion Years Ago

Nov 26, 2014 by News Staff

Using two supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Swiss National Supercomputing Center, a group of researchers headed by Dr Simon Portegies...

Dogs and cats need to move fluid against gravity into the body by means other than suction; they do this by lapping fluid with their tongue. When a dog drinks, it curls its tongue posteriorly while plunging it into the fluid and then quickly withdraws its tongue back into the mouth. During this fast retraction fluid sticks to the ventral part of the curled tongue and is drawn into the mouth due to inertia. The scientists studied several variations of this drinking behavior among many dog breeds, specifically, the relationship between tongue dynamics and geometry, lapping frequency, and dog weight; and also compared the results with the physical experiment of a rounded rod impact onto a fluid surface. Image credit: Emmanuel Keller aka Tambako The Jaguar / CC BY-ND 2.0.

Physicists Explain Why Dogs are Sloppy Drinkers

Nov 26, 2014 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by Dr Sunghwan Jung of Virginia Tech has identified and modeled the fluid dynamics at play when dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)...

This image shows four globular clusters in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy, from left to right, top to bottom: Fornax 1, Fornax 2, Fornax 3 and Fornax 5. Image credit: NASA / ESA / S. Larsen, Radboud University, the Netherlands.

Mystery of Globular Star Clusters’ Formation Deepens

Nov 26, 2014 by News Staff

New Hubble Space Telescope observations of globular star clusters in a tiny galaxy called the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Fornax dSph) show these objects...

This image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 986. Image credit: NASA / ESA.

Hubble Space Telescope Zooms in on Spiral Galaxy NGC 986

Nov 25, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have photographed a distant barred spiral galaxy called NGC 986. This image shows the barred spiral galaxy...

SeaBED seen under the sea ice. Image credit: Klaus Meiners / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Scientists Produce First High-Resolution 3D Maps of Antarctic Sea Ice

Nov 25, 2014 by News Staff

Researchers from Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom using an autonomous underwater vehicle known as the SeaBED have created the first...

The Sulawesi streaked flycatcher (Muscicapa sodhii). Image credit: © Martin Lindop.

Sulawesi Streaked Flycatcher: New Species of Bird Discovered in Indonesia

Nov 25, 2014 by News Staff

An international group of ornithologists from the United States and Indonesia led by Dr Berton Harris of Princeton University has described a new species...

Black seadevil (probably Melanocetus johnsonii), about 9 cm long. Image credit: © Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

Marine Biologists Capture Footage of Rare Black Seadevil Anglerfish

Nov 24, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute using their remotely operated vehicle Doc Ricketts have filmed a rare and bizarre-looking...

Cambaytherium thewissi. Image credit: Elaine Kasmer.

55-Million-Year-Old Fossils Suggest Ancestor of Rhinos, Horses Originated in India

Nov 24, 2014 by News Staff

An international group of paleontologists has discovered a horse-like animal that lived in what is now India during Eocene epoch, about 55 million years...

The surface of Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view; image scale is 1.6 km per pixel; north on Europa is at right. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SETI Institute.

NASA Scientists Release Remastered Image of Europa

Nov 22, 2014 by News Staff

A new view of Europa, the sixth of Jupiter’s moons and the fourth largest, has been produced from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft...

The dwarf galaxy Markarian 177 (center) and SDSS1133 (blue) lie 90 million light-years away. Image credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Astronomers Discover Mysterious Source of Light in Dwarf Galaxy Markarian 177

Nov 21, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational group of astronomers led by Dr Michael Koss of ETH Zurich has discovered an exotic object in a galaxy some 90 million light-years away. The...

The scientists have reported evidence from the northeastern Tibetan Plateau indicating that the first villages were established only by 5,200 years ago.

Archaeologists Shed More Light on Colonization of Tibetan Plateau

Nov 21, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has discovered extensive archaeological evidence of Neolithic farming and human habitation at altitudes above 2,000...