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Hawaiian Islands Formed by Extrusive Volcanism, Scientists Find

Haleakala Crater in East Maui Hawaii. Image credit: University of Wisconsin.
Oct 8, 2013 by News Staff

New research, reported in the Geophysical Research Letters, changes our understanding of how the Hawaiian Islands formed. Haleakala Crater in East Maui Hawaii. Image credit: University of Wisconsin. Study leader Ashton Flinders from the University of Rhode Island and his colleagues have determined that it is the eruptions of lava on the surface, extrusion, which grow Hawaiian volcanoes, rather than internal emplacement of magma, as was previously...

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This is an artist's reconstruction of Saurichthys curionii. Image credit: University of Zurich.

Saurichthys: Unusual 240-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fish

Oct 8, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A newly discovered fossil of an early ray-finned fish, named Saurichthys curionii, from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland reveals a previously unknown...

This is an artist's impression of a protostar in G34.43+00.24 MM3. Image credit: NAOJ.

ALMA Sees Giant, Hot Cocoon around Protostar in Infrared Dark Cloud

Oct 8, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, to observe...

Curcurbit beetle, shown here, the true armyworm moth and the potato aphid can predict adverse weather conditions. Image credit: Melinda Sullivan and Edward Jones, USDA APHIS.

Insects Can Predict Adverse Weather, Entomologists Say

Oct 7, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a study published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, insects modify calling and mating behavior in anticipation of storms. Curcurbit beetle,...

High-level water vapor influences weather and climate, according to a new study. Image credit: NASA.

Water Vapor in Stratosphere Influences Climate on Earth, Study Says

Oct 7, 2013 by News Staff

According to new research reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, water vapor changes in the stratosphere contribute to warmer...

Subglacial topography and predicted flow routes for catchments of the Institute Ice Stream and the Möller Ice Stream. Image credit: Anne M. Le Brocq et al.

Antarctica: Researchers Find Huge Channels beneath Ice Shelf

Oct 7, 2013 by News Staff

In a new paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, British researchers have reported the discovery of giant ice channels beneath the floating Filchner-Ronne...

Saltuarius eximius: New Species of Leaf-Tailed Gecko Found in Australia

Oct 6, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Two Australian biologists have described a new species of leaf-tailed gecko in the genus Saltuarius. The Cape Melville Leaf-tailed Gecko with regenerated...

Main symptoms of multiple sclerosis. Image credit: Mikael Häggström.

48 New Genetic Variants Linked to Multiple Sclerosis

Oct 4, 2013 by News Staff

Genetic researchers reporting in the journal Nature Genetics have discovered an additional 48 genetic variants influencing the risk of developing multiple...

False killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens.

False Killer Whales Can Form Partnerships with Bottlenose Dolphins to Defend from Predation

Oct 4, 2013 by News Staff

A population of false killer whales, Pseudorca crassidens, in waters off northeastern New Zealand developed a relationship with bottlenose dolphins to...

Fomalhaut: Actually Triple Star, Astronomers Say

Oct 4, 2013 by News Staff

In a new study accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal (arXiv.org), astronomers show that a previously known red dwarf star called LP 876-10...

Chaco costai, male. Image credit: Montes de Oca L, Pérez-Miles F.

Two New Spider Species Found in Uruguay

Oct 4, 2013 by News Staff

Entomologists have described two new species of the nemesiid spider genus Chaco from Rocha Province, Uruguay. Chaco costai, male. Image credit: Montes...

This image shows the galaxy Q1442-MD50, center, with incoming cold gas flow. A stream of primordial inflowing hydrogen is illuminated from behind by a distant background quasar, lower left, - quasar added by an artist. Image credit: MPIA / G. Stinson / A. V. Macciò.

Astronomers Discover Star-Forming Galaxy Fueled by Primordial Hydrogen

Oct 3, 2013 by News Staff

In a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (arXiv.org), astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the University of California...

This colorized scanning electron micrograph shows Mycobacterium tuberculosis, gram-positive bacteria that cause tuberculosis. Image credit: Ray Butler / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Scientists Create New Vaccine against Tuberculosis

Oct 3, 2013 by News Staff

A large group of researchers from Canada has developed a new tuberculosis vaccine based on a genetically modified cold virus. This colorized scanning electron...

This false color image shows the Eden Patera supervolcano, Arabia Terra, Mars. Image credit: ESA / Mars Express / Freie Universitat Berlin / NHM.

Researchers Find Evidence of Ancient Supervolcanoes on Mars

Oct 3, 2013 by News Staff

Planetary scientists have discovered remnants of giant supervolcanoes in a region in the northern highlands of Mars known as Arabia Terra. The discovery...

This is an artist's impression of the Upland Moa, Megalapteryx didinus, by George Edward Lodge, 1907.

Paleontologists Reconstruct Diet of Four Moa Species

Oct 3, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists from Australia and New Zealand have analyzed more than fifty fossilized feces of the South Island Giant Moa, Upland Moa, Heavy-footed Moa and...

Chinese red-headed centipedes, Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans. Image credit: Department of Biology, the University of New Mexico.

Molecule from Venom of Chinese Centipede Could Lead to Painkiller as Effective as Morphine

Oct 2, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have discovered a peptide in the venom of the Chinese red-headed centipede,...

12-million-year-old sea cow fossils found in Papua New Guinea. Image credit: Erich M. G. Fitzgerald et al.

Scientists Find 12-Million-Year-Old Fossils of Sea Cow

Oct 2, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologists from Museum Victoria, Australia, and the Smithsonian Institution have rediscovered what they claim are the oldest sirenian fossils ever...

Waiting Room - Employment Office by Theresa Bernstein, 1917, oil on canvas. Image credit: The Jewish Museum, New York.

Waiting Makes Us More Patient, New Study Suggests

Oct 2, 2013 by News Staff

Waiting actually does make people more patient, which can provide a payoff for consumers by helping them make better decisions, according to Dr Ayelet...

This image shows a 240-million-year-old pollen grain from northern Switzerland, scale bar - 10 μm. Image credit: Hochuli PA and Feist-Burkhardt S.

Flowering Plants May Have Originated Earlier than Previously Thought

Oct 2, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Well-preserved fossilized pollen grains found in northern Switzerland provide evidence that flowering plants may have originated in the early Triassic...

Propylene: Ingredient of Household Plastic Detected in Atmosphere of Saturn’s Moon Titan

Oct 2, 2013 by News Staff

Planetary scientists using the Composite InfRared Spectrometer aboard NASA/ESA’s Cassini spacecraft have detected propylene in the lower atmosphere...

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