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New Carnivorous Dinosaur from Madagascar Named ‘Lonely Little Bandit’

Outline of Dahalokely tokana with a human for scale, showing known bones in white and missing areas patterned after related animals (Andrew Farke / Joseph Sertich)
Apr 23, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified the first new species of dinosaur from the island of Madagascar in nearly a decade. Outline of Dahalokely tokana with a human for scale, showing known bones in white and missing areas patterned after related animals (Andrew Farke / Joseph Sertich) The dinosaur, named Dahalokely tokana, lived about 90 million years ago. The species name is from the Malagasy language, meaning ‘lonely small bandit.’ It is estimated...

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Horsehead Nebula: Spectacular New Image from Hubble

Apr 22, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the Horsehead Nebula in infrared light. This new Hubble image...

Electron image of a silica grain found in GRV 021710 meteorite

Researchers Find Silica Grains from Ancient Supernova in Meteorites

Apr 22, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has discovered tiny grains of sand from ancient supernova in two primitive meteorites. Primitive carbonaceous chondrite...

Scientists at Loughborough University say there are six markers in the breath that could be candidates for use as indicators of stress (Greenville.edu)

Researchers Say Breath Test Could Help Identify Stress

Apr 19, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new pilot study conducted by scientists at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK, a deep breath could become stress-detector. Scientists...

Left: schematic structure of a toxin nanosponge. Right: zoomed-in view of a single toxin-absorbed nanosponge, scale bar - 20 nm (Che-Ming J. Hu et al / Zhang Research Lab)

Nanosponges Could Soak up Toxins Released by Infections, Venom

Apr 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has created ‘nanosponges’ capable of removing a broad class of toxins from the bloodstream,...

Kepler-62f, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the Sun (NASA Ames / JPL-Caltech)

Earth-like Planets Found in Habitable Zone around Kepler-62, Kepler-69

Apr 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Using observations with NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earths in the habitable...

The Shoulder Dress embodies the complexity of the design process when designing for active fibers. The collection shows garments in their multiple stages, low and high energy, enabled by future fibers and transformative textiles (© Ronald Borshan)

New Research Shines Light on Future of Fashion

Apr 19, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new research headed by Prof Joanna Berzowska from the Concordia University’s Department of Design and Computation Arts brings the future of fashion...

Chandra Sees Supernova SN 1006 in Exquisite Detail

Apr 18, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the most detailed view yet of the supernova SN 1006. X-ray image of the SN 1006...

The California sea hare, Aplysia californica

Neuroscientists Reverse Memory Loss in Animal Brain Cells

Apr 18, 2013 by News Staff

A team of neuroscientists from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston reversed memory loss in nerve cells of the California sea hare (Aplysia...

The African coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae (Hans Fricke / Max-Planck Institute)

Researchers Sequence Genome of African Coelacanth

Apr 18, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international consortium of experts led by Prof Chris Amemiya from the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason and the University of Washington...

This image illustrates calcium regulation in the human body, the role of vitamin D is shown in orange (Mikael Häggström)

Obesity Can Lead to Vitamin D Deficiency

Apr 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to scientists reporting in the journal PLoS Medicine, obesity can lead to a lack of vitamin D circulating in the human body. This image illustrates...

The South Andean deer, Hippocamelus bisulcus, is returning to former habitat thanks to collaborative conservation efforts (Alejandro Vila)

Conservation Efforts Save South Andean Deer from Extinction

Apr 17, 2013 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Oryx shows that collaborative approaches to conservation can give hope to endangered species such as the South Andean...

This illustration shows Tribolium castaneum telomerase catalytic subunit, TERT (Emskorda / CC BY-SA 3.0)

Scientists Map Cellular ‘Fountain of Youth’

Apr 17, 2013 by News Staff

A large group of researchers led by Cambridge University scientists has for the first time mapped an enzyme called telomerase. This illustration shows...

Grey reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Albert Kok / CC BY-SA 3.0)

Study: Moon Affects Diving Behavior of Sharks

Apr 17, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A study of Grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) published in the journal PLoS ONE has revealed that the Moon, water temperature and even time...

A perspective view of a 30-mile crater in Thaumasia Planum, Mars (ESA / DLR / FU Berlin / G. Neukum)

Dramatic Underground Explosions Responsible for Twin Crater Pits on Mars

Apr 17, 2013 by News Staff

Massive underground explosions, perhaps involving ice, have created the pits inside two large impact craters in the Thaumasia Planum region on Mars, say...

Teenagers lighting each other’s cigarettes, the Netherlands, 1932 (Nationaal Archief @ Flickr Commons)

Daily Walk Can Help Teenagers Quit Smoking

Apr 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a study published online in the Journal of Adolescent Health, teen smokers who increased the days on which they got just 20 minutes of exercise...

Fainting by Pietro Longhi, c. 1744

Single Gene May be Responsible for Fainting, New Study Shows

Apr 17, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A study published in the journal Neurology shows that, in some families, only one gene may be responsible for fainting, also known as vasovagal syncope. Fainting...

This scanning electron micrograph shows macrophages infected with Bacillus anthracis (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology)

Epimerox: New Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Developed, Kills MRSA, Anthrax

Apr 16, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers at the Rockefeller University and a pharmaceutical company have developed a new antibiotic that kills a wide range of bacteria, including methicillin-resistant...

This artist’s concept illustrates how charged water particles flow into the Saturnian atmosphere from the planet's rings, causing a reduction in atmospheric brightness (NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute / University of Leicester)

Astronomers See Rain Falling from Saturn’s Rings

Apr 16, 2013 by News Staff

New observations made with the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, have tracked the ‘rain’ of charged water particles into the atmosphere...

NEFSC researcher Larry Alade holds a tagged monkfish prior to release (Pasha Ivanov)

Scientists Amazed by Monkfish’s Bizarre Feeding Habits

Apr 16, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of biologists studying monkfish has found that the bottom-dwelling creature can prey on a small Arctic seabird called dovekie, the...

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