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In a paper published in the August 3, 2017 issue of the journal Nature, physicists with the ALPHA collaboration, a multinational project based at CERN, report the first detailed observation of spectral lines from an antihydrogen atom, the antimatter counterpart of the simplest atom, hydrogen. Artist’s impression of a cloud …

A stunning new image of Jupiter captured by NASA’s Juno robotic orbiter shows a huge storm called the North North Temperate Little Red Spot 1 (NN-LRS-1), the third largest anticyclonic storm on the gas giant. The North North Temperate Little Red Spot 1. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI …

Exenatide, a drug commonly used to treat Type 2 diabetes, may have disease-modifying potential to treat Parkinson’s disease, according to new research from University College London. ANCOVA (analysis of covariance) comparing decline in DaTscan (electrocardiographic and single photon emission CT) binding between the placebo and exenatide groups: (A) placebo group: …

The Hubble Space Telescope may be old, but it’s often still the best way for astronomers to observe distant objects. For example, the massive exoplanet WASP-121b orbiting a star roughly 900 light years from Earth. Observations of this so-called “hot Jupiter” show that it has a warm stratosphere, a common …

A team of physicists with the COHERENT collaboration is the first to detect and characterize coherent elastic scattering of low-energy neutrinos off atomic nuclei. Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. Image credit: COHERENT Collaboration. Neutrinos, miniscule subatomic particles that rarely interact with matter, are often described as ‘ghost-like.’ Chargeless and nearly without …

In a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE, a team of U.S. researchers examined the diets of three different dolphin species (the common bottlenose dolphin, the melon-headed whale, and the Gray’s spinner dolphin), and also looked at how they divide ocean resources and space. Dolphins. “We used the …

You’ve probably attached images, documents, and a myriad of other files to an email, but what about a life form? That may be possible in the not-too-distant future, according to Synthetic Genomics, a company founded in 2005 by famed geneticist Craig Venter. The company has just unveiled an experimental version …

An analysis of the fossilized skin of Borealopelta markmitchelli, the most well-preserved of the armored dinosaurs ever unearthed, has revealed that the ancient creature had a reddish-brown coloration and camouflage in the form of countershading, and that despite being the size of a tank, it was still hunted by carnivorous …

NASA’s Juno spacecraft took this stunning photo of Jupiter’s most distinctive feature, its Great Red Spot, from orbit. This true color image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was taken by the JunoCam imager onboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft on July 10, 2017. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS …

An international team of researchers at the eFLOWER project has reconstructed what the Earth’s ancestral angiosperm flowers might have looked like. 3D model of the ancestral flower reconstructed by the eFLOWER team. Image credit: Sauquet et al, doi: 10.1038/ncomms16047. Flowering plants (angiosperms), with at least 300,000 species, are by far …