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Researchers Reconstruct Giant Asteroid Impact 3.26 Billion Years Ago

A graphical representation of the size of the dinosaur-killing Chicxulub asteroid, and the crater it created, compared to an asteroid thought to have hit the Earth 3.26 billion years ago and the size of the crater it may have generated. Image credit: American Geophysical Union.
Apr 10, 2014 by News Staff

A huge asteroid, up to five times larger than the rock thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs, crashed into Earth more than 3 billion years ago, say researchers Dr Norman Sleep and Dr Donald Lowe from Stanford University. A graphical representation of the size of the dinosaur-killing Chicxulub asteroid, and the crater it created, compared to an asteroid thought to have hit the Earth 3.26 billion years ago and the size of the crater it may have generated....

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Nimbacinus dicksoni. Image credit: Anne Musser. Background: Hopetoun Falls in Victoria, Australia. Image credit: David Iliff / CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Nimbacinus dicksoni: Australia’s Extinct Marsupial Hunted Large Prey

Apr 10, 2014 by News Staff

Nimbacinus dicksoni, an ancient meat-eating marsupial that lived in Australia during Oligocene and Miocene between 24 and 5.3 million years ago, had the...

This image shows a Neanderthal and a human kid. Image credit: Neanderthal Museum.

Neanderthals were Good Parents, New Study Finds

Apr 10, 2014 by News Staff

A new study reported in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology challenges the traditional view that Neanderthal childhood was short, difficult and dangerous. This...

The Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Image credit: CERN.

Z(4430): CERN Physicists Confirm Existence of Exotic Hadrons

Apr 10, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beauty collaboration have confirmed the unambiguous observation of the long-sought exotic hadron Z(4430),...

This image show member stars of the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Segue-1. Image credit: Marla Geha.

Segue-1 May be One of First Galaxies Ever Formed in Universe, Say Astronomers

Apr 10, 2014 by News Staff

According to astronomers led by Dr Anna Frebel from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy called Segue-1 may be one of first...

Eurasian jay, Garrulus glandarius, in Tarn, France. Image credit: Pierre Dalous / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Male Eurasian Jays Surprise Ornithologists

Apr 9, 2014 by News Staff

Male Eurasian jays, Garrulus glandarius, are able to disengage from their own current desires to feed female food that she wants, says a group of scientists...

This image shows the planetary nebula Abell 33. Image credit: ESO.

Astronomers Zoom in on Planetary Nebula Abell 33

Apr 9, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have captured a beautiful new image of the planetary nebula Abell 33. This image shows the planetary nebula...

520-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Oldest Known Cardiovascular System

Apr 9, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists from China, the United States and United Kingdom have discovered a 3-inch-long fossil of a prehistoric shrimp-like animal with the earliest...

Shedd Aquarium biologists filmed this 4-m-long Giant oarfish in the Gulf of California. Image credit: John G. Shedd Aquarium.

Oarfish Caught on Film in Gulf of California

Apr 9, 2014 by News Staff

An extremely rare oarfish has been captured on camera in the shallow waters of the Gulf of California. Shedd Aquarium kayakers filmed this 4-m-long Giant...

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

Neanderthals Interbred with Ancestors of Eurasians, New Study Confirms

Apr 8, 2014 by News Staff

A new genetic study, published in the journal Genetics, supports the hypothesis that Neanderthals interbred with anatomically modern Homo sapiens in Eurasia. A...

The Eastern swamp crayfish, Gramastacus lacus. Image credit: McCormack RB.

Gramastacus lacus: New Crayfish Species Discovered in Australia

Apr 8, 2014 by News Staff

Dr Robert McCormack from the Australian Aquatic Biological Pty’s Australian Crayfish Project has described a new species of crayfish from the swamps...

An artist's conception of how BOSS uses quasars to measure the distant Universe. Image credit: Zosia Rostomian, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Andreu Font-Ribera, BOSS Lyman-alpha team, Berkeley Lab.

Astronomers Use Quasars to Measure Expansion Rate of Early Universe

Apr 8, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) have used 140,000 quasars to measure the expansion rate of the Universe when it was...

Canis dingo! Scientists Say Dingo is Unique Species

Apr 7, 2014 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the Journal of Zoology, the dingo is a distinct member of the dog family, not a kind of wild dog as previously believed. A...

A juvenile Kea, Nestor notabilis, perching on some rubble on the Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand. Image credit: Markus Koljonen / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kea: Researchers Shed Light on History of Famous New Zealand Parrot

Apr 5, 2014 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Molecular Ecology reveals the glacial and post-glacial history of the kea, Nestor notabilis. A juvenile Kea, Nestor...

This composite image shows the galaxy cluster ACT-CL J0102-4915, also known as the El Gordo Galaxy Cluster, the most massive cluster of galaxies ever seen to exist when the Universe was just half of its current age of 13.8 billion years. Image credit: NASA / ESA / J. Jee, University of California, Davis / J. Hughes, Rutgers University / F. Menanteau, Rutgers University and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign / C. Sifon, Leiden Observatory / R. Mandelbum, Carnegie Mellon University / L. Barrientos, Universidad Catolica de Chile / K. Ng, University of California, Davis.

El Gordo: Hubble ‘Weighs’ Giant Galaxy Cluster

Apr 4, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have weighed the El Gordo Galaxy Cluster – the largest known galaxy cluster in the distant Universe. This...

An anatomical illustration from Sobotta's Human Anatomy, 1908, shows the structure of a human brain. Image credit: Dr Johannes Sobotta.

Genetic Scientists Identify Key Gene for Human Brain Development

Apr 4, 2014 by News Staff

A new study, reported in the American Journal of Human Genetics, confirms that a gene called USP9X is critical to the earliest stages of the human brain...

A 1,500-year-old monastery with well-preserved mosaic floors unearthed near the Bedouin village of Hura, Israel. Image credit: Skyview Company / Israel Antiquities Authority.

Byzantine Period Monastery with Stunning Mosaics Discovered in Israel

Apr 4, 2014 by News Staff

Israeli archaeologists have unearthed ruins of a 1,500-year-old monastery with well-preserved mosaic floors near the Bedouin village of Hura in the South...

A color plate illustration from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1899, showing a variety of hummingbirds. From top to bottom: ruby-throated hummingbird, horned sungem, crimson topaz, red-tailed comet, tufted coquette, sword-billed hummingbird, buff-tailed sicklebill, dot-eared coquette, white-vented violetear, hooded visorbearer, Juan Fernández firecrown, booted racket-tail.

Ornithologists Unveil Hummingbird Family Tree

Apr 4, 2014 by News Staff

In a 12-year-long study of 284 of the world’s 338 known hummingbird species, an international team of ornithologists has mapped the 22-million-year-old...

This color view of Enceladus was taken by Cassini spacecraft on 31 January 2011, from a distance of 50,330 miles (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / G. Ugarković).

Enceladus Has Subsurface Sea, Scientists Say

Apr 3, 2014 by News Staff

New gravity data from ESA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal that Enceladus – the sixth-largest of the moons of Saturn – harbors a regional subsurface...

New study shows that lunar cycle modulates human sleep and melatonin rhythms (Image: Luc Viatour)

Geologic Clock Helps Scientists Determine Moon’s Age

Apr 3, 2014 by News Staff

Planetary researchers headed by Dr Seth Jacobson from the Observatory de la Cote d’Azur in Nice, France, say they have determined that the Moon formed...

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