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The Philae lander at work on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Image credit: ESA / AOES Medialab.

Philae Records Sound of Landing, Conducts Experiments on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Nov 20, 2014 by News Staff

An instrument called SESAME-CASSE aboard Rosetta’s 100-kg Philae lander has recorded the sound of touchdown – in the form of vibrations detected...

Thunderstorms can produce an exotic kind of electrical breakdown that involves high-energy electrons and their anti-matter equivalent called positrons (University of Minnesota)

Sun’s Magnetic Field Triggers Lightning Strikes on Earth

Nov 20, 2014 by News Staff

The Sun plays a significant role in the generation of lightning strikes on Earth, according to a new study that found that over a 5-year period the United...

This artist's concept shows what the very early Universe might have looked like. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt / SSC.

Gravity May Have Saved Very Early Universe – Study

Nov 20, 2014 by News Staff

A team of physicists from Denmark, Finland and the United Kingdom, led by Dr Matti Herranen University of Copenhagen, says that the spacetime curvature...

This artist's impression shows the mysterious alignments between the spin axes of quasars and the large-scale structures they inhabit; these alignments are over billions of light-years and are the largest known in the Universe. Image credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser.

Mysterious Alignment of Quasar Axes with Universe’s Large-Scale Structures Revealed

Nov 20, 2014 by News Staff

European astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have found that the rotation axes of quasars are parallel to each other over very long distances...

A model of a Neanderthal man in modern clothing. Image credit: H. Neumann / Neanderthal Museum.

Homo neanderthalensis: Neanderthals Represent Separate Human Species

Nov 19, 2014 by News Staff

According to a new study that analyzed different aspects of the nasal complex in Neanderthals and other later Pleistocene fossils from Europe and Africa,...

Partners who kiss each other at least nine times a day share similar communities of oral bacteria, the team says. Image credit: Skyggefotografen / CC BY 2.0.

Ten-Second Kiss Shares 80 Million Bacteria, Dutch Scientists Say

Nov 19, 2014 by News Staff

About 80 million bacteria are transferred during a single 10-second kiss, says a group of researchers from the Netherlands. Partners who kiss each other...

LHCb coil moving. Image credit: © CERN, 2003.

CERN Physicists Discover Two New Particles

Nov 19, 2014 by News Staff

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment today announced the discovery of two new baryon particles, named Ξb’- and...

GEOS-5 has given researchers a stunning new look at how CO2 in the atmosphere travels around the globe. Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center / K. Sharghi.

GEOS-5 Computer Model Provides High-Resolution Look at Key Greenhouse Gas

Nov 19, 2014 by News Staff

A new computer model called GEOS-5 has provided a high-resolution look at how carbon dioxide (CO2) – the key driver of global warming – moves...

Global geologic map of Vesta, showing the spatial distribution of major types of materials. Image credit: D.A. Williams et al.

Scientists Create Global Geologic Map of Asteroid Vesta

Nov 18, 2014 by News Staff

An international group of planetary scientists has produced the first global geologic and tectonic map of Vesta, and constructed the geologic time scale...

This is an artist’s impression of habitable Mars (Daein Ballard / CC BY-SA 3.0)

Volcanic Eruptions May Have Triggered Episodic Water Flow on Ancient Mars

Nov 18, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists from Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and Brown University suggest that water flow and warm temperatures on early Mars were likely related...

Misao Okawa (born on March 5, 1898) and her relatives: she is a Japanese supercentenarian who is, at the age of 116 years, the world's oldest living person; she married in 1919, has three children, four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, and now lives in Osaka. Image credit: © Guinness World Records.

Scientists Sequence Genomes of 17 World’s Oldest Living People

Nov 18, 2014 by News Staff

U.S. genetic researchers led by Dr Stuart Kim of Stanford University have sequenced the genomes of 17 supercentenarians to see if they could uncover the...

Concept of a dark-matter search using atomic clocks; by monitoring time discrepancies between two spatially separated clocks one could search for the passage of topological defects, such as the domain wall pictured here. Image credit: A. Derevianko & M. Pospelov.

GPS Might be Tool in Detecting Mysterious Dark Matter, Physicists Say

Nov 18, 2014 by News Staff

Two physicists – Dr Maxim Pospelov from the University of Victoria and Prof Andrei Derevianko of the University of Nevada, Reno – have proposed...

The OSIRIS narrow-angle camera aboard Rosetta spots the Philae probe drifting across Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; the time of each of image is marked on the corresponding insets and is in GMT (EDT+5, PDT+8, CET-1). Credit: ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / SSO / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA.

Rosetta Images Follow Philae’s Historic Comet Landing

Nov 17, 2014 by News Staff

New images released by the European Space Agency (ESA) show the journey of Philae as it approached and then rebounded from its first touchdown on Comet...

Paroedura hordiesi, adult male. Image credit: Glaw F et al.

Beautiful New Gecko Species Discovered in Madagascar

Nov 17, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of scientists from Germany and France has described a new species of gecko that lives in a karstic limestone massif called Montagne...

Magnetic field lines weave through the cloud of dusty gas surrounding the young Sun; in the foreground are asteroids and chondrules, the building blocks of chondrite meteorites. Image credit: Hernan Canellas / MIT Paleomagnetism Laboratory.

Strong Magnetic Fields Recorded in Meteorite Provide Clues to How Early Solar System Evolved

Nov 17, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists working on a primitive meteorite known as Semarkona have found evidence that the protoplanetary disk of the early Solar System was shaped by...

Philae at work on the comet. Image credit: ESA / AOES Medialab.

Philae Lander Goes into ‘Idle Mode’

Nov 16, 2014 by News Staff

Rosetta’s Philae lander has completed its primary science mission after two days on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. With its batteries depleted...

Colorized infrared image of Uranus obtained on August 6, 2014, with adaptive optics on the 10-meter Keck telescope; white spots are large storms. Image credit: Imke de Pater, University of California, Berkeley / Keck Observatory images.

Astronomers Spot Large Storms on Uranus

Nov 14, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has detected eight massive storms on the northern hemisphere of Uranus, the seventh planet...

Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) from the Atlas des plantes de France, 1891.

Sugar Beet Hemoglobin Could be Used as Blood Substitute – Study

Nov 13, 2014 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a new study published in the journal Plant and Cell Physiology, hemoglobin found in a variety of beetroot called the sugar beet (Beta vulgaris...

Philae is safely on the surface of the comet, as this image confirms; one of the lander's three feet can be seen in the foreground. Image credit: ESA / Rosetta / Philae / CIVA.

Rosetta Mission’s Philae Probe Lands on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Nov 13, 2014 by News Staff

European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission has landed its Philae probe on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The signal confirming the successful...