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Water Vapor Detected on Neptune-sized Exoplanet HAT-P-11b

Comparison of HAT-P-11b with Neptune. Image credit: Aldaron / CC BY-SA 3.0
Sep 24, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers from the United States, Chile and Europe has detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a Neptune-sized extrasolar planet known as HAT-P-11b, which is now the smallest exoplanet ever on which water vapor has been discovered. Comparison of HAT-P-11b with Neptune. Image credit: Aldaron / CC BY-SA 3.0 Discovered in 2009, HAT-P-11b is a so-called exo-Neptune located in the constellation of Cygnus, about 122 light-years away. The planet,...

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Neanderthal engraving from Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar. Image credit: Joaquín Rodríguez-Vidal et al.

39,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Engraving Found in Gorham’s Cave

Sep 24, 2014 by News Staff

Archaeologists working in Gorham’s Cave in Gibraltar have found what they believe is the first known example of Neanderthal rock art. Neanderthal...

The Emerald rockcod (Trematomus bernacchii) is a common notothenioid species. Image credit: Zureks / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ice Crystals inside Antarctic Fishes May Never Melt

Sep 23, 2014 by News Staff

U.S. scientists headed by Dr Chi-Hing Christina Cheng of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign have discovered that the so-called ‘antifreeze’...

Combinatorial and modular genetic strategy for engineering self-assembling underwater adhesives; abbreviations: Mfps - mussel foot proteins (Mfp3 and Mfp5 - major mussel adhesive foot proteins, have unstructured coil structures in solution and are critical to the underwater interfacial adhesion of mussels); CsgA - an amyloidogenic protein that is the major subunit of adhesive curli fiber in Escherichia coli (contains five stacked strand–loop–strand motifs mediated by conserved residues and can self-assemble into nanofibers via a rate-limiting nucleation step followed by fibril extension). Image credit: Chao Zhong et al.

Mussel-Inspired Waterproof Adhesives Could Help Heal Wounds, Repair Ships

Sep 23, 2014 by News Staff

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have designed new mussel-inspired waterproof adhesives that could be used to heal wounds or repair...

The Byzantine-era compound with oil and wine presses. Image credit: Griffin Aerial Photography Company / Israel Antiquities Authority.

Byzantine-Era Monastery Discovered in Israel

Sep 22, 2014 by News Staff

Archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have discovered what they say is an ancient compound with ‘industrial-scale’ wine and oil...

Bahian Mouse-Colored Tapaculo: New Bird Species Discovered in Brazil

Sep 22, 2014 by Natali Anderson

An international team of ornithologists led by Dr Marcos Bornschein of the Mater Natura-Instituto de Estudos Ambientais in Curitiba has described an endangered...

This image shows an artist concept of NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft Enters Orbit around Mars

Sep 22, 2014 by News Staff

On September 21, 2014, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully entered the orbit of the Red Planet after completing...

310-million-year-old shark egg case. Image credit: © Dean Lomax.

Paleontologists Find 310-Million-Year-Old Shark Egg Case

Sep 20, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologist Dean Lomax of the University of Manchester’s School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences and his colleagues from the United...

Southern hemisphere of Miranda; projection is orthographic, centered on the south pole; visible from left to right are Elsinore, Inverness, and Arden coronae. Image credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Ted Stryk.

Miranda: Tidal Heating Responsible for Current Appearance of Uranus’ Icy Moon

Sep 20, 2014 by News Staff

Brown University planetary scientists in a new study have found that tidal heating is the main reason responsible for the present appearance of Miranda...

Camel caravan crosses the Sahara desert in Morocco. Image credit: Bachmont / CC BY 2.0.

Sahara Desert Formed 7 Million Years Ago, New Study Suggests

Sep 20, 2014 by News Staff

A series of climate simulations, co-led by Dr Camille Contoux of the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research in Bergen, Norway, suggests that the desertification...

Some of 22,000 merging galaxies identified within the GAMA survey. Image credit: Simon Driver / Aaron Robotham / ICRAR.

Massive Galaxies Grow by Snacking on Smaller Neighbors

Sep 20, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers conducting a broad survey of galaxies called Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) have found that the Universe’s most massive galaxies gain weight...

Rhinorex condrupus attacked by a Cretaceous crocodile. Image credit: © Julius Csotonyi.

Rhinorex condrupus: New Herbivorous Dinosaur Discovered in Utah

Sep 19, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists Dr Rodney Scheetz of Brigham Young University’s Museum of Paleontology and Dr Terry Gates of North Carolina State University and North...

The top panel shows total world population projected to 2100; dotted lines are the range or error using the older scenario method, while shaded regions are the uncertainties using statistical methods; the darker shading is the 80 % confidence bars, and the lighter shading shows the 95 % confidence bars; at the bottom are the population projections for each continent. Image credit: Adrian Raftery / University of Washington.

Earth’s Population Could Reach 12.3 Billion by 2100, Scientists Say

Sep 19, 2014 by News Staff

A team of researchers led by Dr John Wilmoth of the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs announced yesterday in the journal Science that, according...

This Hubble Space telescope image shows the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 60 in the center, and the ultra-compact dwarf galaxy M60-UCD1 below it and to the right, and also enlarged as an inset; Messier 60’s gravity also is pulling galaxy NGC4647, upper right, and the two eventually will collide. Image credit: NASA / Space Telescope Science Institute / European Space Agency.

Astronomers Discover Supermassive Black Hole in Dwarf Galaxy M60-UCD1

Sep 18, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational group of astronomers led by Dr Anil Seth of the University of Utah has discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of an ultra-compact...

A Sami indigenous northern European family in Norway around 1900. The picture was probably taken in 1896 around the Kanstadfjord near Lødingen, Nordland. The adults on the left are Ingrid (born Sarri) and her husband Nils Andersen Inga. In front of the parents are Berit and Ole Nilsen. The lady on the right is Ellen, sister of Ingrid. In front of Ellen are the children Inger Anna and Tomas. The children of Inger Anna are reindeer herders still today. Detroit Publishing Co. print no. 7123.

Europeans Descended from 3 Groups of Ancient Humans, Study Reveals

Sep 18, 2014 by News Staff

Modern Europeans are the descendants of at least three groups of ancient humans, not two as was previously thought, reveals a comparative analysis of DNA...

Artistic reconstruction of a post-Chicxulub impact forest. Image credit: Donna Braginetz / Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

Dino-Killing Chicxulub Asteroid Helped Plant Kingdom Bloom

Sep 17, 2014 by News Staff

According to a new study of fossilized leaves of angiosperms (flowering plants excluding conifers) published in the journal PLoS Biology, the massive asteroid...

Cell-Like Structure Found within 1.3-Billion-Year-Old Martian Meteorite

Sep 17, 2014 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the United Kingdom and Greece led by Dr Elias Chatzitheodoridis of the National Technical University of Athens has found a mysterious...

A density map of part of the Milky Way disk; the axes show galactic latitude and longitude, coordinates that relate to the position of the centre of the Galaxy; the mapped data are the counts of stars detected in i, the longer wavelength broad band of the survey, down to a faint limit of 19th magnitude; although this is just a small section of the full map, it portrays in exquisite detail the complex patterns of obscuration due to interstellar dust. Image credit: Hywel Farnhill / University of Hertfordshire.

New Catalogue of Visible Milky Way Contains 219 Million Stars

Sep 16, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using data from the Isaac Newton Telescope on La Palma in the Canary Islands have assembled a catalogue of the visible part of the northern...

Jethro Cairn: 5,000-Year-Old Stone Monument Discovered in Israel

Sep 16, 2014 by News Staff

Ido Wachtel, a PhD student and an archaeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology, has discovered a 5,000-year-old crescent-shaped...

Anthracotherium magnum, a species of anthracothere from Oligocene of Europe. Image credit: Dmitry Bogdanov / CC BY 3.0.

19-Million-Year-Old Hippo-Like Animal Named after Mick Jagger

Sep 15, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists from the United States and Egypt have described a new species of anthracothere that lived in Africa during Miocene, 19 million years ago,...

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