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January 2016 Science Images

January 29, 2016

‘Medieval Warm Period’ May Not Have Been Global Climate Event

December 4, 2015

Some of those who argue against human causation of climate change often point to a number of Earth’s past climatic events and periods such as the ‘Medieval Warm Period’ and the ‘Little Ice Age’ as examples that climate change can be the result of natural and not necessarily anthropogenic in origin. But now a new study published in the journal ‘Science […]

Coffee Delays Diabetes; Dinosaur Tracks Found; Exiled Exoplanet

December 2, 2015

Coffee May Prevent Onset of Type 2 Diabetes A new Danish study finds that drinking between three and four cups of coffee a day can reduce the onset of type 2 or early onset diabetes. Researchers from Denmark’s Aarhus University Hospital say two compounds found in coffee, cafestol and caffeic acid, can help prevent diabetes. […]

A visitor tries the flight simulator ‘Birdly’ at the exhibition "Animated Wonderworlds" at Zurich’s Museum for Design, 11/17/15. Birdly simulates the flight of a red kite over New York City, controlled by the entire body of the user. The flight simulator was developed by scientists at Zurich University of the Arts. (Reuters)

November 2015 Science Images

November 30, 2015

This new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3521 was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope released on 9/21/15. It’s a member of a class of galaxies known as flocculent spirals and is located almost 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo. (ESA/Hubble & NASA and S. Smartt (Queen's University Belfast))

September 2015 Science Images

September 30, 2015

Artistic reconstruction of Isthminia panamensis, a new fossil dolphin from Panama, feeding on a flatfish. (Julia Molnar/Smithsonian Institution)

Ancient Dolphin; CPR is More Successful on TV; Blueberries Make Natural Antibiotic

September 2, 2015

New Extinct Species of River Dolphin Discovered Scientists have recently discovered the fossils of a new extinct species of a river dolphin.  Since the fossils were found in ocean sediments just off the Caribbean coast of Panama, the new species have been named Isthminia panamensis. The newly identified species is closely related to the Amazon […]

“There’s no place like home!” A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away. (NASA)

July 2015 Science Images

July 31, 2015

Artist's concept depicts one possible appearance of the newly discovered exoplanet Kepler-452b, (NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle)

Earth’s ‘Cousin’ Found; Burnt Scroll Made Readable, ET Search Boosted

July 24, 2015

NASA Finds Earth’s Older and Bigger Cousin NASA announced that its Kepler mission has discovered a planet and star that closely resembles the Earth and our Sun.  Some have even been calling the discovery of the exoplanet “Earth’s older and bigger cousin”. The planet and sun are part of the Kepler-452 system and are about […]

A color image made with B, R, and i-band images from the Subaru Telescope. A small region of 6 x 6 arcmin is cut out from large Coma Cluster images. Yellow circles show two of the 47 dark galaxies discovered last year, and green circles are the ones discovered in this new study. Image without the labels is here, image without the labels and circles is here. (Credit: NAOJ)

Ultra-Dark Galaxies; Exoplanet With Comet-Like Tail; New Dinosaur Species

June 24, 2015

Astronomers Find Huge Treasure Trove of Ultra-Dark Galaxies U.S. and Japanese researchers have discovered 854 “ultra dark galaxies” located within the Coma Cluster, about 321 million light years from Earth. Dark galaxies are described as those that are totally composed of or are mostly filled with dark matter, which cannot be seen by telescopes. Nevertheless, […]

Ancient Toolmaking Roused Humanity’s Need for Language

January 24, 2015

A couple of million years ago our ancient human ancestors created the world’s first tools when they broke some rocks into sharp shards so that they could slice apart and butcher game such as gazelles or zebras. These early implements, called Oldowan tools, are the world’s oldest-known cutting devices. The term “Oldowan” is taken from […]

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