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Researchers Find Decline in Snow, Ice on Mount Everest

A new study finds a decline in snow and ice on Mount Everest, second peak from left, and the national park surrounding it (Pavel Novak)
May 20, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Italian scientists have found abundant evidence that the world’s tallest peak is shedding its frozen cloak. A new study finds a decline in snow and ice on Mount Everest, second peak from left, and the national park surrounding it (Pavel Novak) “Glaciers in the Mount Everest region have shrunk by 13 percent in the last 50 years and the snowline has shifted upward by 590 feet (180 m),” explained Dr Sudeep Thakuri of the University of Milan in...

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Micrograph shows H1N1 swine flu virus (C. S. Goldsmith / A. Balish, CDC)

H1N1 Swine Flu Virus Found in Marine Mammals for the First Time

May 20, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers reporting in the journal PLoS ONE has detected the influenza H1N1 virus in Northern Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostris) off...

Artist's illustration of a butterfly as if departing from a moire pattern in graphene formed on top of a sheet of boron nitride (James Hedberg)

Hofstadter Butterfly Effect Observed for the First Time

May 17, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists from Japan and the United States have directly observed a rare quantum effect that produces a repeating butterfly-shaped energy spectrum first...

A captive American alligator in a defensive position (Ianaré Sévi / CC BY-SA 3.0)

Alligator Stem Cells Offer Hope for Tooth Regeneration in Humans

May 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of scientists led by Prof Cheng-Ming Chuong from the University of Southern California has discovered unique cellular and molecular...

Reconstruction of Kootenichela deppi (Adapted from David Legg, 2013)

505-Million-Year-Old Ancestor of Lobsters and Scorpions Named after Actor Johnny Depp

May 17, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr David Legg, a paleontologist with the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, has discovered an ancient creature with...

Artist’s impression of the newly discovered Rukwapithecus, front, and Nsungwepithecus, right (Mauricio Anton)

25-Million-Year-Old Primate Fossils Unearthed in Tanzania

May 16, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Ohio University-led scientists have uncovered fossils of two new species of ancient primates, named Rukwapithecus fleaglei and Nsungwepithecus gunnelli,...

Billion year old sparkling water (J. Moran)

Scientists Find 1.5-Billion-Year-Old Pockets of Water in Canadian Mine

May 16, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers from Canada and the United Kingdom led by Prof Chris Ballentine from the University of Manchester have discovered ancient water pockets that...

The study highlights the high affinity of the Minoans to the current inhabitants of the Lassithi plateau of Crete as well as Greece. This image shows Minoan Palace of Knossos (Bernard Gagnon / CC BY-SA 3.0)

Mitochondrial DNA Study Reveals Origins of Minoan Civilization

May 16, 2013 by News Staff

A new study reported in the journal Nature Communications indicates that the Minoans, who 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization...

Reconstruction of Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus (John Gurche / Myartprints.com)

Tiny Ear Bone Fossils Shed New Light on Human Ancestors

May 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to an international team of anthropologists led by Binghamton University, tiny ear bones from two species of early human ancestors in South Africa...

Male Bothriechis guifarroi, the newly discovered palm-pitviper from Honduras (Josiah H. Townsend)

Gorgeous, but Highly Poisonous Snake Species Discovered in Honduras

May 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of biologists headed by Dr James Austin from the University of Florida in Gainesville has described a new species of green palm-pitviper from a...

Malawania anachronus – New Ichthyosaur from Iraq was Living Fossil of its Time

May 15, 2013 by News Staff

Paleontologists led by Dr Pascal Godefroit from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences have identified a new species of ichthyosaur from a well-preserved...

Heat cloak: a series of concentric rings lets heat propagating from left to right across a metallic sheet flow more readily around a thermally isolated disk than toward its center, leaving no sign of the disk in the temperature distribution on the right side; the colors represent temperatures measured with an infrared camera and are superimposed on a photo of the structure before the rubbery insulating material was added to the holes and gaps; the white lines connect points at the same temperature (R. Schittny / KIT)

Scientists Create Thermal Invisibility Cloak

May 15, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers from Germany and France reporting in the Physical Review Letters has developed and successfully tested a form of invisibility cloak...

Einstein’s Planet: Special Theory of Relativity Helps Astronomers Discover Kepler-76b

May 14, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists from Israel and the United States has reported the first-ever discovery of an extrasolar planet using a novel method...

Flower of Nelumbo nucifera (T. Voekler / CC BY-SA 3.0)

Scientists Sequence Genome of Sacred Lotus

May 14, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A large team of genetic researchers has sequenced the genome of the sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera), which is believed to have a powerful genetic system...

The image shows a healthy Streptococcus pneumoniae bacterial cell, upper left, next to a bacterial cell destroyed and lysed by the human milk protein complex HAMLET, lower right (Laura R. Marks)

Breast Milk Protein HAMLET Reverses Antibiotic Resistance in MRSA, Pneumococcus

May 14, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a new study reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, a human breast milk protein complex called HAMLET can help reverse the antibiotic...

Gonatocerus ucri, named after University of California Riverside (Entomology Research Museum, UC Riversde)

Nineteen New Wasp Species Discovered, One Named after University of California Riverside

May 13, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Dr Serguei Triapitsyn from the University of California Riverside’s Entomology Research Museum has identified 19 new species in the mymarid wasp genus...

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease that primarily affects the joints and surrounding tissue (Tulane University)

Fat in Knees May Trigger Rheumatoid Arthritis, Scientists Find

May 13, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers from the United States and Japan led by Prof Nirmal Banda from the University of Colorado School of Medicine has found that fat cells...

Detail of a 1,500-year-old mosaic found at an archaeological site in Kibbutz Bet Qama, Israel (Yael Yolovitch)

Magnificent Mosaic from Byzantine Period Unearthed in Israel

May 13, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has discovered a spectacular, large 1,500-year-old mosaic at an archaeological site...

Location of the Kanjera South site along the modern shoreline of Lake Victoria, Kenya (Ferraro JV et al)

Earliest Evidence of Hunting by Human Ancestors Found in Kenya

May 13, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

New research led by Prof Joseph Ferraro from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has provided the oldest known evidence of hunting, scavenging and meat eating...

Ice Age people living in Europe might have used forms of some common words including I, you, we, thou, not, that, to give, who, that in some cases could still be recognized today (Neanderthal Museum, Germany)

Linguists Trace European, Asian Languages Back to One Proto-Language

May 10, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Languages spoken across Europe and Asia are descended from a proto-language that was used 15,000 to 10,000 years ago, say researchers led by Dr Andrew...

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