tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43057219370176012142024-03-14T07:22:42.203-05:00Galileo's LensToday's Science News Storiesassurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1187125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-5179135860923629512015-06-03T16:22:00.000-05:002015-06-03T16:37:06.593-05:00Brain Linked to Immune System<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A physical link has been discovered between the <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150601122445.htm">human brain and a lymphatic system</a> through a series of vessels previously thought not to exist, raising new questions about the connection to and causes of many neurological diseases and their dysfunction.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-16250402263333914922015-05-14T15:09:00.000-05:002015-06-03T16:44:01.881-05:00Warm-Blooded Fish Discovered<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The first known <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/05/14/warm-blooded-fish-discovered/27318727/">endothermic fish</a> (opah, or moonfish) has been discovered that lives at depths of 250 feet in the Pacific Ocean, using specialized gills to maintain a warm body temperature as an active predator.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-43721448299956991862015-03-27T16:31:00.000-05:002015-03-27T16:32:22.736-05:00Ancient Underground City Found<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Archaeologists have discovered a previously unknown <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150325-underground-city-cappadocia-turkey-archaeology/">ancient underground city</a> in the Cappadocia region of central Turkey, a massive complex dating back to the Byzantine Empire dug into the volcanic rock estimated at 5 million square feet and possibly once housing 20,000 people.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-41818689006522287432015-03-26T16:55:00.001-05:002015-03-30T16:52:34.760-05:00Bulge Found on Ganymede<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Planetary scientists have discovered a previously unknown 3-km-high <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150326-jupiter-moon-ganymede-ocean-ice-science/">equatorial bulge</a> on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, suggesting it formed at the poles and once massive enough rotated on a hidden global ocean separated from the rocky crust of the moon.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-74738992120796162062015-03-25T16:57:00.000-05:002015-03-31T16:49:36.415-05:00Most Massive Black Hole<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Astronomers have discovered an ultraluminous quasar (SDSS J0100+2802) powered by the most <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150225142452.htm">supermassive black hole</a> yet known with 12 billion solar masses, presenting a theoretical puzzle as to how such large objects quickly formed a mere 900 million years after the Big Bang.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-90319155363500085342015-03-24T16:52:00.000-05:002015-04-01T16:56:37.401-05:00Largest Asteroid Crater Found<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Geophysicists have accidentally discovered a 400-km-wide impact zone in the Warburton Basin of Central Australia due to an <a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1113357785/largest-asteroid-crater-ever-discovered-in-australia-032415/">asteroid that broke into two pieces</a> before striking Earth an estimated 300 million years old, twice the size of the Chicxulub crater of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-81976134578901727582015-03-12T16:44:00.001-05:002015-03-12T16:45:13.987-05:00Filter-Feeding "Giant Lobster"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Paleontologists have discovered a previously unknown giant fossil (<i>Aegirocassis benmoulae</i>) of the anomalocaridids group living about 480 million years ago that used <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31837024">tiny spines on appendages</a> to filter-feed much like modern-day whales, providing insight into that early marine environment.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-53547909041197262382015-03-04T16:47:00.000-06:002015-03-11T16:47:58.597-05:00Oldest Known Human Ancestor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Researchers have unearthed a <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27079-oldest-known-member-of-human-family-found-in-ethiopia.html">jawbone in Ethiopia</a> of an as-yet unnamed <i>Homo</i> ancestor dating back about 2.8 million years, more than 400,000 years earlier than the oldest previously known human fossil evidence and supporting timelines of the transition of our species from <i>Australopithecus</i> to <i>Homo</i>.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-17501382280545845622015-02-18T16:24:00.000-06:002015-02-25T16:25:57.371-06:00New Seadragon Species Found<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Scientists have identified a previously unknown third distinct species of the exotic seadragon, named the <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150218092115.htm">ruby seadragon</a> (<i>Phyllopteryx dewysea</i>) after its unusual bright red coloration, while analyzing DNA from tissue samples believed to be from the two known species, the leafy and common seadragons.</div>
assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-26215998758015763932015-02-09T17:01:00.000-06:002015-02-09T17:01:40.518-06:00Earth's Inner Inner Core<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Reading seismic waves that resonate in the aftermath of an earthquake, seismologists have discovered the dense, inner core at the center of the Earth has itself a <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150209113222.htm">distinct inner core</a> of about half the diameter, both cores composed of iron crystals but with different and unique properties, possibly different crystalline phases.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-86469643467195071672015-02-03T16:41:00.000-06:002015-02-05T16:41:58.586-06:00No Evolution for 2 Billion Years<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Scientists examining microfossils of deep-sea sulfur bacteria from Western Australia's coast found them virtually indistinguishable from those in older samples and the same sulfur bacteria today, an example of more than <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150203104131.htm">2 billion years of no evolution</a> in a static environment that confirms rather than challenges current evolutionary theory.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-4889344169399536252015-01-30T16:50:00.001-06:002015-02-02T16:26:44.800-06:00Planet's Giant Ring System<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Astronomers have detected the first exoplanet (J1407b) with an <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150129-saturn-rings-solar-system-space-science/">extensive ring system</a> similar to Saturn but about 200 times larger than those of our own ringed planet, possibly a young planetary system in an early transient phase of satellite formation.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-16254501116574187392015-01-29T16:49:00.000-06:002015-02-10T16:55:49.803-06:00Long-Necked Dinosaur Found<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A previously unknown species of <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150128160506.htm">long-necked dinosaur</a> (Qijianglong) has been discovered in China belonging to the group known as mamenchisaurids, characterized by extremely long and relatively lightweight necks measuring up to half their total body length.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-19411872944642557332015-01-28T16:39:00.000-06:002015-01-28T16:39:44.822-06:00"Vibrational" Chemical Bond<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Chemists have confirmed the existence of a type of temporary <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chemists-confirm-the-existence-of-new-type-of-bond/">"vibrational" chemical bond</a> between atoms of bromine and muonium, a hydrogen isotope, initially proposed in 1989 with the tiny muonium atom rapidly moving between and holding together two heavier bromine atoms.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-68548566628591090352015-01-08T11:57:00.000-06:002015-01-09T11:58:01.351-06:00"Unbeatable" Poker Algorithm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Game theorists have developed a computer algorithm known as <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/game-theorists-crack-poker-1.16683">counterfactual regret minimization</a> for the heads-up limit hold’em (HULHE) poker variant that is "virtually unbeatable," rendering this particular strategy so close to perfect as to consider the game solved.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-15476856202386218142015-01-05T10:51:00.000-06:002015-01-06T16:41:46.578-06:00Unknown Egyptian Queen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Archaeologists working in Abu-Sir southwest of Cairo have discovered the tomb of a previously <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30674339">unknown Egyptian queen</a>, named Khentakawess III after wall inscriptions, believed to be the wife or mother of Pharaoh Neferefre who ruled about 4500 years ago.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-12545603362815908942014-12-04T16:37:00.000-06:002015-01-06T16:41:32.633-06:00Isolated Humpback Whales<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Researchers studying humpback whales that inhabit the Arabian Sea and northern Indian Ocean have found them to be the most <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141203151808.htm">genetically distinct whales</a> in the world, suggesting this long-distance migrating population has remained isolated from other whales for 70,000 years.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-57516644873690017772014-12-03T16:34:00.000-06:002014-12-05T16:36:05.572-06:00Homo erectus Art on Seashell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A pattern recently discovered on a seashell originally discovered Java in the 1890s reveal 500,000-year-old <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/homo-erectus-made-world-s-oldest-doodle-500-000-years-ago-1.16477">deliberate engravings</a> ascribed to <i>Homo erectus</i>, the first evidence of abstract thought from that extinct hominid species.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-79707412564251601142014-11-19T16:37:00.000-06:002014-12-04T16:38:32.052-06:00Two New Subatomic Particles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The "Beauty" experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHCb) has identified two <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141119160920.htm">never-before-seen baryonic particles</a> named Xi_b′ and Xi_b*, each one consisting of a beauty (b), a strange (s) and a down (d) quark.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-57127134952099284262014-11-07T10:17:00.001-06:002014-12-01T16:56:07.451-06:00Ancient Gene-Hoarding Shrub<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An ancient flowering, evergreen shrub (<i>Amborella</i>) that only grows on a single Pacific archipelago off the eastern coast of Australia has absorbed the entire mitochondrial genes of a moss, three green algae and several hundred genes from an unknown number of flowering plants for a <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gene-hoarding-shrub-puzzles-biologists/">bloated genome</a> orders of magnitude larger than any other known plant.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-17952292601437086642014-11-06T10:17:00.000-06:002014-12-02T16:19:17.139-06:00Half of Stars Outside Galaxies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Analyzing a faint background glow detected by the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER), astronomers estimate that as many as half of all stars <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/half-of-stars-lurk-outside-galaxies-1.16288">exist outside of galaxies</a>, left adrift as a result of galactic collisions.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-3819322892950349552014-11-01T16:45:00.000-05:002015-01-07T16:45:15.782-06:00New Teotihuacan Chambers Found<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Archaeologists have found three <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-artifact-filled-chambers-revealed-under-teotihuacan/">previously unknown chambers</a> at the end of a tunnel discovered in 2003 under the Temple of the Feathered Serpent at Teotihuacan, with the new rooms filled with thousands of artifacts such as small statues, rubber balls, gemstone objects and seashells.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-82417558597312929982014-10-03T16:26:00.001-05:002014-10-06T16:43:29.710-05:00Majorana Particle Signature<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Researchers have seen the first evidence of a so-called <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/new-particle-is-both-matter-and-antimatter-1.16074">Majorana particle</a>, a theoretical particle that is simultaneously its own corresponding antiparticle, on a chain of iron atoms placed on the surface of a lead-based superconductor.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-81139420612145037602014-10-01T16:36:00.000-05:002014-10-07T16:54:38.102-05:00Lunar Plain Not Impact Crater<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The latest analysis of the <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/moon-s-largest-plain-is-not-an-impact-crater-1.16041">Oceanus Procellarum</a>, the large, dark plain on the near side of the Moon, shows it is rimmed by structures that form straight lines and angles, implying formation due to tectonic activity and not as the result of an impact.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4305721937017601214.post-91712693515893960532014-07-30T16:17:00.000-05:002014-07-30T16:17:04.874-05:00Octopus with Longest Gestation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Scientists have observed a deep-sea octopus (<i>Graneledone boreopacifica</i>) <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/octomom-sets-gestation-record-1.15646">brooding a clutch of eggs</a> at a site in the Pacific Ocean for roughly 53 months, longer by far than any other known species.assurbanipaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12489763431317551032noreply@blogger.com0