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New Species of Pseudoscorpion Found Preserved in 50-Million-Year-Old Amber

Geogaranya valiyaensis. Image credit: Agnihotri et al., doi: 10.26879/1276.
May 9, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of fossil pseudoscorpion from the Eocene-period Cambay amber of Western India. Geogaranya valiyaensis. Image credit: Agnihotri et al., doi: 10.26879/1276. Pseudoscorpions are an order of the earliest arthropods that colonized the landmass of the Earth during the Early Devonian epoch. This diversified order occupies more than 3% of the total known arachnid species. “Pseudoscorpions are an ancient...

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The NASA visualization tracks a camera as it approaches, briefly orbits, and then crosses the event horizon -- the point of no return -- of a supersized black hole similar in mass to the one at the center of our Galaxy. Image credit: J. Schnittman & B. Powell, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

New NASA Visualization Shows Supermassive Black Hole’s Event Horizon

May 9, 2024 by News Staff

Thanks to a new visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer, you can plunge into the event horizon, a black hole’s point of no return. “People...

This artist’s concept shows the possible locations of iron revealed in XRISM’s X-ray spectrum of NGC 4151. Image credit: Conceptual Image Lab, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

XRISM Detects Iron in Accretion Disk around NGC 4151’s Supermassive Black Hole

May 8, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

NGC 4151 is a spiral galaxy located some 62 million light-years away in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici. This artist’s concept shows the...

An artist’s impression of 55 Cancri e. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / R. Crawford, STScI.

Webb Detects Secondary Atmosphere on 55 Cancri e

May 8, 2024 by News Staff

Gas bubbling up from a lava-covered surface on the super-Earth exoplanet 55 Cancri e may feed an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide,...

Painted rock art at a site around Gebel Nahoganet in the Sudanese Eastern Desert. Image credit: Cooper et al., doi: 10.1177/03075133231211.

New Rock Art Sites Discovered in Sudanese Eastern Desert

May 8, 2024 by News Staff

Archaeologists from Macquarie University and Polish Academy of Science’s Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Culture have discovered 16 new rock...

Decay scheme of potassium-40. Image credit: Stukel et al., doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.052503.

Physicists Observe Rare Nuclear Decay of Potassium Isotope

May 8, 2024 by News Staff

Physicists with the Potassium Decay (KDK) Collaboration have made the first direct observations of a very rare but critical decay path of potassium-40...

Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus). Image credit: Gabriel Barathieu / CC BY-SA 2.0 Deed.

Sperm Whale Communication is More Complex than Previously Thought

May 8, 2024 by News Staff

Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are highly social mammals that communicate using clicks. According to new research, they can combine and modulate...

The black-necked spitting cobra (Naja nigricollis). Image credit: John Lyakurwa / CC BY 4.0 Deed.

Researchers Discover First Effective Treatment for Spitting Cobra Snakebite

May 7, 2024 by News Staff

Spitting cobra venom is incredibly potent and causes dermonecrosis, which presents as rapid destruction of skin, muscle and bone around the site of the...

This DECam image shows CG4, one of many cometary globules present within the Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: CTIO / NOIRLab / DOE / NSF / AURA / T.A. Rector, University of Alaska Anchorage & NSF’s NOIRLab / D. de Martin & M. Zamani, NSF’s NOIRLab.

DECam Spots Cometary Globule in Gum Nebula

May 7, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on NSF’s Víctor M. Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a Program of NSF’s...

Kharintsev et al. found that photons can obtain substantial momentum, similar to that of electrons in solid materials, when confined to nanometer-scale spaces in silicon. Image credit: Kharintsev et al.

Scientists Discover New Property of Light

May 7, 2024 by News Staff

A team of physicists and chemists has discovered a previously unknown way in which light interacts with matter, a finding that could lead to improved solar...

Venus today is dry thanks to water loss to space as atomic hydrogen. Image credit: Aurore Simonnet / Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics / University of Colorado at Boulder.

New Study Explains Why Venus is Extremely Dry

May 7, 2024 by News Staff

Despite its Earth-like size and source material, Venus is extremely dry, indicating near-total water loss to space. Using computer simulations, planetary...

This Hubble image shows NGC 4951, a spiral galaxy some 49 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. Image credit: NASA / ESA / D. Thilker, Johns Hopkins University / Gladys Kober, NASA & Catholic University of America.

NGC 4951: Hubble Space Telescope Captures Active Seyfert Galaxy

May 7, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacular image of NGC 4951, a spiral galaxy with an active galactic center in...

An artist’s impression of Dornraptor normani. Image credit: Megan Williams.

New Species of Jurassic Theropod Dinosaur Identified in England

May 6, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

BPP University paleontologist Matthew Baron has identified a previously unknown carnivorous dinosaur from Dorset, England based on fossils collected in...

Life reconstruction of Militocodon lydae. Image credit: Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

Newly-Discovered Species of Mammal Lived 610,000 Years after Dinosaur Extinction

May 6, 2024 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists from Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Kent State University, the University of Michigan and City University of New York have discovered...

This Hubble image shows UGC 9684, a spiral galaxy located 240 million light-years away in the constellation of Boötes. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / C. Kilpatrick.

Hubble Snaps Striking New Photo of UGC 9684

May 6, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released an incredibly beautiful photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the spiral galaxy UGC 9684. This Hubble image shows UGC...

Map of the sites surveyed by the ROOTS team. Image credit: Fynn Wilkes / EU.

7,000-Year-Old Settlement Discovered in Serbia

May 4, 2024 by News Staff

An international team of archaeologists with the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence has discovered a Late Neolithic settlement near the Tamiš River in the northernmost...

Rakus feeding on Fibraurea tinctoria leaves. Image credit: Laumer et al., doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-58988-7.

Sumatran Orangutan Spotted Treating Wound with Medicinal Plant

May 3, 2024 by News Staff

Primatologists in Indonesia have observed a wild male Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) who sustained a facial wound. Three days after the injury he selectively...

Rendering of the likely view on a Hycean world. Image credit: Shang-Min Tsai / UCR.

Webb Probably Didn’t Detect Biosignature Gas on K2-18b

May 2, 2024 by News Staff

In 2023, astronomers reported a tentative detection of dimethyl sulfide — which is predominately produced by marine microbes on Earth and regarded...

Mastcam mosaic from the Sol 1686 rover location looking behind the rover (downslope) at the transition point between the Sutton Island and Blunts Point Murray members. Images from Sols 1685-1689 display sedimentary textures of dark-toned manganese-rich sandstones and nearby rocks. Dashed line boxes in the large mosaic are shown as insets along the bottom of figure. Small red outlines show the approximate locations and extent of ChemCam observations. Throughout this transition area, dark-toned sandstones (presumably manganese-rich based on ChemCam observations at three locations) overlie light-toned materials. Insets from left to right: (a) Denning Brook, a manganese-rich fine-grained dark-toned sandstone ChemCam observation; (b) and (c) two light-toned blocks with cross-stratified textures, highlighted with yellow lines, 6 m away from Denning Brook and to the upper left in the large mosaic; (d) dark-toned materials (center of mosaic); and (E1) Newport Ledge, (E2) AEGIS post 1685a, (E3) Sugarloaf Mountain, three thin planar laminated dark-toned sandstones. Image credit: NASA / Caltech-JPL / MSSS.

Manganese-Rich Sandstones Point to Earth-Like Environment on Ancient Mars

May 2, 2024 by News Staff

In May 2017, NASA’s Curiosity rover observed higher than usual amounts of manganese in the lakebed rocks within Gale crater, Mars. These sedimentary...

This Webb image shows NGC 6440, a globular cluster located 27,625 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / P. Freire / M. Cadelano / C. Pallanca.

Webb Explores Stellar Population of NGC 6440

May 1, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

NGC 6440 is a typical massive, obscured and contaminated globular cluster formed and orbiting within the bulge of our Milky Way Galaxy. This Webb image...

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