385-Million-Year-Old Amber Found in China
Paleontologists in China have discovered what they say is the earliest confirmed pieces of amber ever found, a…
Astronomers Discover Four New White Dwarfs in Solar Neighborhood
Using near-UV spectroscopic data from the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers…
Hubble Detects Ultraviolet Light from Tiny Starburst Galaxy in Early Universe
Just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, MXDFz4.4 — a galaxy 100 times smaller than the Milky…
125-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Relative Reveals Its True Colors
Exceptionally preserved skin of Montsecosuchus depereti, an extinct crocodylomorph no larger than a house cat that prowled the…
Scientists Shined UV Light on World’s Most Dangerous Bird and Found a Hidden Glow
A northern cassowary shown in visible light at left and ultraviolet light at right reveals the bright green-blue…
New peptide serum shown to reduce both dynamic and static wrinkles
The research, conducted by L’Oréal researchers in China, Japan and the US, suggested that the combination of acetyl…
Ganymede’s Auroral Patches Reveal Shared Physics with Earth’s Aurorae
Scientsts from the United States, Europe and China have used the Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) onboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft…
Scientists Observe Electrical Discharges on Trees under Thunderstorms
Most people know about lightning and the havoc it wreaks on forests. They do not know about the…
Baker’s Yeast Can Survive Mars-like Stress Conditions, New Study Shows
Exploring the possibility of the survival of life under extraterrestrial conditions is an important goal of astrobiology. In…