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Tempest Stela of Ahmose: World’s Oldest Weather Report

The Tempest Stela of Ahmose. Reconstruction of the face. Image credit: Malcolm H. Wiener and James P. Allen, 1998.
Apr 3, 2014 by News Staff

A new translation of a 40-line inscription on a 3,500-year-old stone block from Egypt called the Tempest Stela describes rain, darkness and the ‘sky being in storm without cessation, louder than the cries of the masses.’ The Tempest Stela of Ahmose. Reconstruction of the face. Image credit: Malcolm H. Wiener and James P. Allen, 1998. The Tempest Stela dates back to the reign of the pharaoh Ahmose, the first pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty. His rule...

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In this illustration, Atlantochelys mortoni is depicted with the outline of a human diver to indicate scale. Image credit: Jason Poole / Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

Paleontologists Find Fossil Bone of Giant Turtle Atlantochelys mortoni

Apr 3, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists say they have made a surprising discovery – a fossil bone of an extinct turtle species scientifically known as Atlantochelys mortoni. In...

This image shows a pair of galaxies: NGC 1316, and its smaller companion NGC 1317, right. Image credit: ESO.

Astronomers Zoom in on Intriguing Galaxy Pair NGC 1316-NGC 1317

Apr 3, 2014 by News Staff

An international group of astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, has captured a new image of two galaxies:...

Eschscholzia androuxii. Image credit: Shannon Still.

Biologist Discovers Two New Species of Desert Poppy

Apr 2, 2014 by News Staff

Dr Shannon Still, a biologist with Chicago Botanic Garden, has described two new species of desert poppies from the deserts of California and Arizona. Eschscholzia...

Zebra with young. Painting by Robert E Fuller.

Study Explains why Zebras Have Stripes

Apr 2, 2014 by News Staff

According to a team of researchers led by Prof Tim Caro from the University of California at Davis, zebra’s stripes stave off biting flies, including...

Astronomers Detect Ring System around Minor Planet Chariklo

Apr 1, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists led by Dr Felipe Braga-Ribas from Observatório Nacional/MCTI in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have observed for the first time a minor planet with...

Chromosomes. Image credit: University of New Mexico.

Researchers Create Artificial Eukaryotic Chromosome

Mar 28, 2014 by News Staff

Researchers led by Dr Jef Boeke of NYU Langone Medical Center’s Institute for Systems Genetics have synthesized the first functional chromosome in...

This is an artist's visualization of the dwarf planet Sedna. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt, SSC-Caltech.

2012 VP113: New Dwarf Planet Discovered

Mar 27, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers Dr Chadwick Trujillo of Gemini Observatory in Hawaii and Dr Scott Sheppard of Carnegie Institution for Science have discovered a dwarf planet,...

Collage of galaxies in the Herschel Reference Survey at infrared/submillimeter wavelengths by Herschel, left, and at visible wavelengths from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, right. The Herschel image is colored with blue representing cold dust and red representing warm dust; the SDSS image shows young stars in blue and old stars in red. Together, the observations plot young, dust-rich spiral/irregular galaxies in the top left, with giant dust-poor elliptical galaxies in the bottom right. Image credit: ESA / Herschel / HRS-SAG2 / HeViCS Key Programmes / Sloan Digital Sky Survey / L. Cortese, Swinburne University.

Herschel Completes Largest Ever Dust Census in Local Universe

Mar 25, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using data from ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have completed the largest-ever survey of cosmic dust, spanning 323 nearby galaxies located...

This image shows part of NGC 2174, also known as the Monkey Head Nebula. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team / STScI / AURA.

Hubble Zooms in on Monkey Head Nebula

Mar 21, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a stunning new image of the nebula NGC 2174, also known as the Monkey Head Nebula. This...

1,800-year-old letter from the Egyptian soldier Aurelius Polion. Image credit: University of California / Berkley's Bancroft Library.

Linguist Deciphers 1,800-Year-Old Letter from Egyptian Soldier

Mar 21, 2014 by News Staff

A 1,800-year-old private letter from the Egyptian recruit Aurelius Polion of legio II Adiutrix stationed in Pannonia Inferior (modern day Hungary) has...

This is a fragment of the GLIMPSE360 panorama. Image credit: NASA / JPL.

GLIMPSE360: Astronomers Create 360-Degree View of Milky Way Galaxy

Mar 21, 2014 by News Staff

Using images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, a group of astronomers has created a dramatic 360-degree portrait of our Galaxy. This is a fragment...

This image shows a fragment of the D'Orbigny meteorite. Image credit: Jon Taylor / CC BY-SA 2.0.

Kuratite: New Mineral Discovered in Meteorite

Mar 21, 2014 by Sergio Prostak

The stony meteorite D’Orbigny is the source of a newly discovered mineral, kuratite. Its name honors Dr Gero Kurat (1938-2009), a world-renowned meteorite...

Loblolly pines. Image credit: Ronald Billings / Texas A&M Forest Service.

Genetic Researchers Sequence Genome of Loblolly Pine

Mar 21, 2014 by News Staff

A large multinational team of scientists led by Prof David Neale from the University of California Davis has sequenced the entire genome of the Loblolly...

This is a reconstruction of the stick insect Cretophasmomima melanogramma among the gymnosperm plant Membranifolia admirabilis. Image credit: Fernandez S.

Earliest Known Stick Insect Fossils Discovered in China

Mar 20, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists led by Dr Maomin Wang from Capital Normal University in China say the newly discovered stick insect Cretophasmomima melanogramma may have...

This is an artist's impression of Anzu wyliei. Image credit: Mark Klingler / Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

Anzu wyliei: New Bird-like Dinosaur Discovered

Mar 19, 2014 by Enrico de Lazaro

U.S. paleontologists have discovered a new raptor dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago. This...

Drilling the frozen moss core on Signy Island. Image credit: Peter Boelen.

Scientists Revive 1,530 Years Old Antarctic Moss

Mar 18, 2014 by News Staff

British researchers have brought back to life 1,530-year-old moss recovered from Antarctic permafrost. Extensive regrowth of the 1,530-year-old moss Chorisodontium...

Science policy suggestions for the upcoming Indian national elections. Image credit: Jak / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Science Policy Suggestions for Upcoming Indian National Elections

Mar 18, 2014 by Sukant Khurana

While political apathy to many pressing problems of India is glaring, one key area of national concern, generates some hope. Looking at the successive...

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.

Researchers Find Direct Evidence of Cosmic Inflation

Mar 18, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists using the BICEP2 Radio Telescope at the South Pole announced they have found the first direct evidence that gravitational waves – disturbances...

Forensic facial reconstruction of another Australopithecus species - A. afarensis. Image credit: Cicero Moraes / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Little Foot: Scientists Discover 3-Million-Year-Old Australopithecus prometheus

Mar 17, 2014 by News Staff

The nearly complete skeleton of the Australopithecus prometheus named Little Foot discovered in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa is the oldest complete...

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