This week we discovered the tiniest dinosaur, a real-life Tatooine, glowing kittens helping fight AIDS just to start. Check it out here.
Stretching from Syria to Saudi Arabia, these ancient drawings can be seen from the air but not the ground and are virtually unknown to the public. [<a href="http://www.livescience.com/16046-nazca-lines-wheels-google-earth.html">Full Story</a>]
As pulsing blobs, jellyfish seem out of place among the ranks of sleek, efficient predators of the sea because while plankton-eating fish have eyes to spot their minuscule meals and swim toward them, most jellyfish cannot see and essentially must bump into their prey while pulsing through water. [<a href="http://www.livescience.com/16077-jellyfish-flourish-surprisingly-effective-predators.html">Full Story</a>]
In what might seem like a scene from a monster movie, an ancient 20-foot crocodile and the world's largest snake may have battled it out in Colombian forest rivers 60 million years ago. <br><br> The new crocodilian was discovered in a Colombian coal mine, the same area where the large snake fossils were discovered. [<a href="http://www.livescience.com/16064-ancient-freshwater-crocodile.html">Full Story</a>]
A small, dim star appears to be wracked by a mega storm more violent than any weather yet seen on another world, astronomers announced. <br><br> The star, called a brown dwarf, is more massive than a giant planet but much lighter than most stars. Over a period of several hours, the star exhibited the largest brightness variations ever seen on a cool brown dwarf. [<a href="http://www.livescience.com/16029-monster-storm-brown-dwarf-star.html">Full Story</a>]
While walking in the riverbed near his home in College Park, Md., an amateur dinosaur hunter Ray Stanford found the tiniest example of an armored dinosaur anyone has ever seen. [<a href="http://www.livescience.com/16093-newborn-armored-dinosaur.html">Full Story</a>]
Cats that can glow in the dark from a new genetic engineering technique are helping scientists study molecules that could stop AIDS, researchers announced today (Sept. 11). <br><br> In addition to opening a window into the virus in humans, the cat research may end up helping the felines themselves. [<a href=" http://www.livescience.com/15994-glow-dark-cats-aids-virus-research.html">Full Story</a>]
Two collisions with a dwarf galaxy over the last nearly 2 billion years may have been the cause of the Milky Way's spiral arm structure, scientists say. [<a href="http://www.livescience.com/16074-milkyway-galaxy-shape-galactic-crash.html">Full Story</a>]
One of the harbingers of global climate change — the extent of the Arctic sea ice — has passed a new threshold. German researchers announced on Sept. 8 that the sea-ice cover had shrunk below its record minimum, set in 2007. <br><br> Or has it? Elsewhere, researchers said the race remained too close to call. [<a href="http://www.livescience.com/16023-arctic-sea-ice-record.html">Full Story</a>]
About 80 million years ago, the flap of wings in a conifer forest let loose feathers that floated through the air before sticking to globs of shining tree sap below. <br><br> Researchers in Western Canada have discovered these slicks of solidified sap, known as amber, contain a great variety of dinosaur and bird feathers from the Late Cretaceous period. <br><br> They found 11 sets of feathers after screening more than 4,000 amber deposits in different museum collections. [<a href="http://www.livescience.com/16069-amber-feathers-dinosaur-birds.html">Full Story</a>]
NASA announced today (Sept. 14) that it is prepared to move forward in developing the Space Launch System, a new heavy-lift launch vehicle envisioned as mankind's latest ticket to the cosmos. <br><br> Unlike the Space Shuttle, which stuck relatively close to Earth, the Space Launch System is designed to launch a crewed space capsule into deep space.[<a href="http://www.livescience.com/1-image-day.html">View the Gallery</a>]
It's a real-life Tatooine. A spectacle made popular by the "Star Wars" saga — a planet with two suns — has now been confirmed in space for the first time, astronomers revealed. <br><br> Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope captured details of a giant planet in orbit around the pair of binary stars that make up the Kepler-16 system, which is about 200 light-years away. [<a href="http://www.livescience.com/16098-skywatching-find-tatooine-alien-solar-system-kepler-16.html">Full Story</a>]
