Nanotubular Structures Enable a Direct Exchange of Nutrients Between Bacteria
New research from the Max Planck Institute shows that some bacteria can form nanotubular structures between single cells that enable a direct exchange of nutrients….
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NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Telescopes Give Shape to Black Hole Winds
Using NASA’s NuSTAR and ESA’s XMM-Newton telescopes astronomers have measured the strength of ultra-fast winds from a supermassive black hole, proving that the winds are…
Dark Matter Influences Supermassive Black Hole Growth
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the ROSAT X-ray satellite’s all-sky survey, researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics detail a distinct…
Marijuana Munchies: How the Appetite Center of the Brain Responds to Marijuana
A new study from Yale University observes how the appetite center of the brain responds to marijuana, revealing what drives the hunger brought about by…
NASA’s Dawn Captures Sharper Images of Ceres
This new image from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft reveals more details of the dwarf planet Ceres. Craters and mysterious bright spots are beginning to pop out…
Scientists Find Link in How Cells Start Process Necessary for Life
While exploring whether a structured RNA molecule from a virus that infects eukaryotic cells could function in bacteria, scientists found that it could initiate protein…
Astronomers Discover a Rare Planet, Kepler-432b
Astronomers have discovered a rare red planet that has six times the mass of Jupiter, but is about the same size. Two research groups of…
Astronomers Discover a New Class of Binary Stars
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a new class of binary stars; one star is fully formed while the other is still…
VLA Reveals Unexpected “Storm” in Teacup Galaxy
Astronomers used VLA data, combined with VIMOS IFU data and HST imaging to reveal that a supermassive black hole is explosively heating and blasting around…
Evidence for the Presence of Dark Matter in the Innermost Part of the Milky Way
A new study from astrophysicists at Stockholm University provides evidence for the presence of dark matter in the innermost part of the Milky Way, including…
Astronomers Measure the Rotation Periods of Thirty Sun-Like Stars
Using the precise data from the Kepler exoplanet mission, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have determined the rotation period measurements for 30 cool…
LRO Reveals Lunar Hydrogen More Abundant on Moon’s Pole-Facing Slopes
Recent Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter observations reveal that deposits of hydrogen may be slightly more abundant on crater slopes in the southern hemisphere that face the…
Astronomers Identify New Details in Spiral Galaxy M51a
Using CWRU’s Burrell Schmidt telescope at KPNO, astronomers identify two new tidal streams extending from the northeast and south of the nearby spiral galaxy M51a….
Dancing on the Edge – Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 7814
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 7814. Galaxies can take many shapes and be oriented in any way relative to us in…
3D Map of Core-Collapse Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals near-infrared observations of the young Milky Way supernova remnant Cassiopeia A and a three-dimensional map of…
Hubble Telescope Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 7714
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 7714, which is located 100 million light-years from Earth. This NASA Hubble Space Telescope photo of…
A New Way to Detect the Early Stages of Massive Star Formation
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, volunteers discovered a new way to detect the early stages of massive star formation. Sometimes it takes a…
Kepler-444: An Ancient Extrasolar System with Five Sub-Earth-Size Planets
Using data from the Kepler spacecraft, astronomers have discovered a compact system of five transiting planets with sizes between those of Mercury and Venus. They…
