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Scientists Find Remains of Ancient Tectonic Plate beneath California

The Isabella anomaly, IA, is at the same depth as other fragments of the Farallon plate under Oregon and Washington (Forsyth lab / Brown University)
Mar 20, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Geophysicists suggest that large chunks of an ancient tectonic plate known as the Farallon Plate are still present under parts of central California and Mexico. The Isabella anomaly, IA, is at the same depth as other fragments of the Farallon plate under Oregon and Washington (Forsyth lab / Brown University) Around 100 million years ago, the Farallon oceanic plate lay between the converging Pacific and North American plates, which eventually came...

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Cystomastacoides kiddo (Quicke DLJ et al)

New Wasp Species Named After Character in Quentin Tarantino’s Film

Mar 20, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Entomologists have described three new species in the parasitoid wasp genus Cystomastacoides. One of them, Cystomastacoides kiddo, was named after the...

Photo of the sediment surface at Challenger Deep - 6.77 miles water depth (Ronnie N. Glud et al)

Researchers Discover Microbial Life in Mariana Trench

Mar 19, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of scientists has discovered a surprisingly huge and active bacterial community living on the sea floor at the deepest site on Earth,...

100,000 year old human skull fossil, known as Xujiayao 11 (Wu X-J et al)

100K Year Old Human Skull Fossil Reveals Signs of Inbreeding

Mar 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Fragments of an early human skull dating back 100,000 years exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Tulane University in New Orleans say obesity and osteoporosis should not be treated separately (University of Massachusetts Lowell)

Fat and Bone Mass are Genetically Linked, Scientists Say

Mar 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Scientists at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Tulane University in New Orleans have discovered a clear genetic link between fat and bone mass. Scientists...

A macrophage engaging in phagocytosis of multiple bacteria (Midlands Technical College)

Scientists Reveal Previously Unknown Role of Macrophages

Mar 18, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the United States, France, Japan and the Netherlands, has found in mice that macrophages, white blood cells that play a key...

SIRT1: broad potential for diseases of aging (© Sirtris)

Study Raises Hope for New Anti-Ageing Drugs

Mar 16, 2013 by News Staff

A new research published in the March 8 issue of the journal Science finally proves that a single anti-ageing enzyme in the body can be targeted, with...

According to a new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Adelaide, Australia, fluoridated water reduces tooth decay in adults, even if they start drinking it after childhood (Jenny Downing / CC BY 2.0)

Fluoridated Drinking Water Reduces Tooth Decay in Adults, Study Finds

Mar 15, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new study published in the Journal of Dental Research provides the strongest evidence yet that fluoridated drinking water prevents tooth decay for all...

Artist's rendering of the planetary system HR 8799 at an early stage in its evolution, showing the planet HR 8799c, a disk of gas and dust, and interior planets (Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics / Mediafarm)

Water Vapor, Carbon Monoxide Found on Extrasolar Gas Giant

Mar 15, 2013 by News Staff

A team of astronomers has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size extrasolar planet. Artist’s rendering of the...

Diamond particles (Jason Nadler / Uic.edu / Sci-News.com)

Researchers Create ‘Water’ That Can Corrode Diamonds

Mar 15, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Scientists from Singapore and Belgium have successfully altered the properties of water, making it corrosive enough to etch diamonds. Diamond particles...

WISE 1049-5319

Astronomers Discover Third-Closest Star System

Mar 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A newly discovered binary brown dwarf is the third-closest star system to our Solar System, and the closest system discovered since 1916. An artist’s...

H -> 2e2mu candidate event recorded by ATLAS on June 18, 2012. Muon tracks are colored red, electron tracks and clusters in the LAr calorimeter are colored green. The larger inset shows a zoom into the tracking detector. The smaller inset shows a zoom into the vertex region, indicating that the 4 leptons originate from the same primary vertex (ATLAS Collaboration)

CERN Presents New Results on Higgs Boson

Mar 14, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists from CERN’s CMS and ATLAS experiments have presented new results that further elucidate the particle discovered in 2012. H -> 2e2mu candidate...

Chinese coin found on the island of Manda, Kenya (John Weinstein / The Field Museum)

600 Year Old Chinese Coin Found on Kenyan Island

Mar 14, 2013 by News Staff

An expedition of archaeologists has unearthed a 600-year-old Chinese coin on the island of Manda, off the northern coast of Kenya. Chinese coin found on...

This image combines data from ALMA and Hubble. Shown in red is the distant, background galaxy, being distorted by the gravitational lens effect produced by the galaxy in the foreground, shown in blue as measured by Hubble. The background galaxy appears warped into a so-called Einstein ring: a circle of light around the foreground galaxy (Dan Marrone)

ALMA Sees Highly Active Galaxies in Early Universe

Mar 14, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an array of 66 radio telescopes located in the dry and cloudless Atacama Desert...

Image of the triplet quasar QQQ J1519+0627 (© Emanuele Paolo Farina, via Carnegie Institution of Washington)

Astronomers Detect Extremely Rare Triple Quasar

Mar 13, 2013 by News Staff

By combining multiple telescope observations and advanced modeling, a multinational team of astronomers has discovered an extremely rare triple quasar...

This image shows a large and very complex, thick-walled, carbon-rich microfossil that the team has identified as a hystrichosphere. Scale bar - 100 μm (Jamie Wallis et al)

Alien Algae? Scientists Say They Have Found Microfossils in Meteorite

Mar 13, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

In a controversial paper published in the March issue of the Journal of Cosmology, scientists from Cardiff University with colleagues from Sri Lanka and...

Life-size model of Edenopteron keithcrooki built by Baz Crook (Australian National University)

Scientists Describe Giant Prehistoric Fish

Mar 12, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the Australian National University have described a new species of ancient fish, after unearthing the largest fossilized lobe-finned...

PS1-12sk, circled, is classified as a very rare Type Ibn supernova - only the sixth such example found out of thousands of supernovae (CfA / PS1 Science Consortium)

Astronomers Discover Extremely Rare Type Ibn Supernova

Mar 12, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a very rare Type Ibn supernova on the outskirts of a bright elliptical galaxy located...

Deficiency of the protein Factor IX, depicted here, causes hemophilia B

Researchers Solve Genetic Mystery of Rare Form of Haemophilia

Mar 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of genetic researchers led by Prof Merlin Crossley from the University of New South Wales has found the third and final missing piece...

33,000-year-old skull of one of the oldest known domestic dogs (Nikolai Ovodov et al., 2011)

DNA Analysis Confirms 33K-Year-Old Fossil Belonged to Modern Dog Ancestor

Mar 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Analysis of DNA extracted from a fossil tooth found in 1975 in a cave called Razboinichya in southern Siberia, Russia, confirms that the tooth belonged...

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