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Yao Ming and Frederick Yeh release an endangered sea turtle back to nature. Image credit: Sea Turtles 911.

Basketball Star Saves Endangered Green Turtles

Jun 26, 2014 by News Staff

The former NBA star Yao Ming has teamed up with non-profit organization Sea Turtles 911 and Hainan Normal University to save Green turtles (Chelonia mydas). Yao...

Neanderthals consumed plants, too. Image credit: University of Utah via kued.org.

New Study Provides Strong Evidence that Neanderthals Ate Plants

Jun 26, 2014 by News Staff

Analysis of sediment samples from El Salt – a known site of Neanderthal occupation in Spain that dates back 50,000 years – suggests that Neanderthals...

X-ray image of the Perseus galaxy cluster: a new study of the cluster has revealed a mysterious X-ray signal; this signal is represented in the circled data points in the inset, which is a plot of X-ray intensity as a function of X-ray energy. Image credit: Chandra / NASA / CXC / SAO / XMM / ESA / E. Bulbul et al.

Astronomers Detect Mysterious X-ray Signal in Andromeda Galaxy, 74 Galaxy Clusters

Jun 26, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatories have detected an unidentified X-ray emission line – a spike...

Radio images of the triple supermassive black holes system J1502P/SE/SW in the galaxy SDSS J150243.09+1111557.3 and its binary component. Image credit: R.P.Deane et al.

Astronomers Discover Rare Triple Supermassive Black Hole System

Jun 26, 2014 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by Dr Roger Deane from the University of Cape Town in South Africa has discovered a system of three supermassive black holes –...

The new study shows cortisol levels can affect voter turnout. Credit: Pete Souza / Richard Whitney / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hormones Influence Your Voting Behavior

Jun 25, 2014 by News Staff

Elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol could be linked with lower rates of participation in elections, says a new study published in the journal...

Qiyia jurassica: Bizarre Bloodsucking Parasite from Jurassic of China

Jun 25, 2014 by News Staff

An international group of paleontologists has described an aquatic larva of a prehistoric fly that lived in what is now Inner Mongolia, China, about 165...

Falco peregrinus babylonicus. Image credit: John Gould, Birds of Asia, vol. 1, pl. 4.

Scientists Finally Find Elusive Hormone Leptin in Birds

Jun 25, 2014 by News Staff

Researchers have found leptin – a hormone that regulates body fat storage, metabolism and appetite – in the Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus),...

The tiny temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background, shown here as color, trace primordial density fluctuations in the early universe that seed the later growth of galaxies. Gravitational waves from inflation are expected to produce much a fainter pattern that includes twisting B-mode polarization, consistent with the B-mode polarization pattern observed by BICEP2, which is shown here as black lines. The line segments show the polarization strength and orientation at different spots on the sky. Image credit: BICEP2 Collaboration.

Higgs Boson, BICEP2 Results Could Point to New Physics beyond Standard Model

Jun 25, 2014 by News Staff

Based on the discovery of the Higgs boson and the recent results from the BICEP2 collaboration, UK physicists have made a surprising prediction: the Universe...

Monarch butterflies cluster in Santa Cruz, California. Image credit: Brocken Inaglory / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Monarch Butterflies Use Light-Dependent Magnetic Compass during Migration

Jun 25, 2014 by News Staff

Eastern North American monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) use a light-dependent, inclination magnetic compass to orient during migration, according...

This image shows the position of the PSR J2222 system. Image credit: David L. Kaplan et al.

Astronomers Discover White Dwarf Star Made of Diamond

Jun 24, 2014 by Enrico de Lazaro

A newly discovered white dwarf, which is a companion to the nearby pulsar PSR J2222-0137, is so cool that its carbon has crystallized, forming a giant...

Paratropis tuxtlensis, adult female protecting her egg sac. Image credit: Valdez-Mondragón A et al.

New Species of Spider with Strange Camouflage Discovered in Mexico

Jun 24, 2014 by News Staff

Entomologists led by Dr Alejandro Valdez-Mondragón have described a new species of spider from a tropical rainforest in Veracruz, Mexico. Paratropis tuxtlensis,...

This image is a composite of several images taken during two separate Titan flybys in 2006. The large circular feature near the center of Titan's disk may be the remnant of a very old impact basin. The mountain ranges to the southeast of the circular feature, and the long dark, linear feature to the northwest of the old impact scar may have resulted from tectonic activity on Titan caused by the energy released when the impact occurred. Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.

Nitrogen in Atmosphere of Titan Might Pre-Date Saturn, Study Says

Jun 24, 2014 by News Staff

A new study provides strong evidence that the nitrogen in the atmosphere of Titan – the largest of the Saturn’s known 62 moons – originated...

This mosaic reveals evidence of a large-scale coronal rain shower pouring relentlessly into the dark sunspot at the surface of the Sun. The coronal rain appears as the labeled giant arching water-fall-like flow. At the top left, the Earth is depicted on the same scale. Image credit: E. Scullion / SST.

Researchers Explain Physics of (Plasma) Rains on Sun

Jun 23, 2014 by News Staff

According to a team of researchers led by Dr Eamon Scullion of Trinity College Dublin, rains on the Sun are made of plasma and fall at about 200,000 km...

Sphaeromimus lavasoa (top right), Sphaeromimus andrahomana (bottom right) and color morphs of the previously known species Sphaeromimus musicus (left). Image credit: Wesener T et al.

Seven New Species of Chirping Giant Pill-Millipedes Discovered in Madagascar

Jun 23, 2014 by Enrico de Lazaro

Entomologists from the United States and Germany have described seven new species of giant pill-millipedes belonging to the Malagasy genus Sphaeromimus. Sphaeromimus...

Digital art by Les Bossinas, Cortez III Service Corp., 1998.

Australian Researchers Simulate Time Travel

Jun 23, 2014 by News Staff

A group of physicists at the University of Queensland in Australia has used photons to simulate quantum particles traveling through a wormhole back in...

Higgs boson decays to four muons: lines denote other particles, and energy deposited is shown in blue. Image credit: CMS.

Higgs Boson Decays to Fermions, CERN Study Confirms

Jun 23, 2014 by News Staff

New research conducted by physicists from CERN’s Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has confirmed that the Higgs boson...

Planetary Scientists Discover Mysterious Geologic Object on Titan

Jun 23, 2014 by News Staff

A team of planetary researchers, led by Jason Hofgartner of Cornell University, has announced the discovery of an anomalous, bright geologic object –...

Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri): adults and chicks. Image credit: Michael Van Woert / NOAA NESDIS / ORA.

New Research Disproves Hypothesis that Emperor Penguins are Strictly Philopatric

Jun 22, 2014 by News Staff

A new study led by Dr Peter Fretwell of British Antarctic Survey is the first to use satellite imagery to suggest that emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri)...

Five tropical tanagers, clockwise from upper left: Golden Tanager, Swallow Tanager, Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager, Red-necked Tanager, Beryl-spangled Tanager. Credit: Peter Wendelken / Frank Shufelt / Keith Bowers / Vivek Tiwari / Priscilla Burcher.

Study into Plumage, Song Evolution in Tanagers Dispels Darwin’s Transfer Hypothesis

Jun 21, 2014 by News Staff

A new study of Thraupidae – the largest songbird family, representing nearly 10 per cent of all songbirds – has dispelled the long-held ‘transfer...