World's Smallest Chameleon Discovered And It’s "Surprisingly" Well-Endowed
The search for a new species becomes very difficult when you’re dealing with an animal the size of your fingertip, which is precisely the variety of chameleon described in a new study. Nine years ago, some of the researchers on the new paper described the tiny chameleon, Brookesia micra, for the first time. It was believed back then to be the smallest in the world, but now paper authors Glaw and Scherz describe an even smaller new species, Brookesia nana.
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Astronomers Discover First-Ever Cloudless "Hot Jupiter"
Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that has a clear atmosphere with no clouds, the second of its kind discovered to date. It's also the first-ever cloudless “hot Jupiter” discovered, giving astronomy an incredible opportunity to study these unusual worlds. The planet is located 575 light-years from Earth and orbits very close to its star, making it very hot. It has a mass of just half our Jupiter or about 180 Earths.
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Nearly 300 New Lifeforms Discovered Living In Deep-Sea Volcano's Scalding Jets
An international team of researchers has found hundreds of never-before-seen microbial organisms living in scalding hot hydrothermal vents. The vents sit on a deep-sea volcano northeast of New Zealand, some 1,830 meters (6,000 feet) beneath the water's surface. The study documented a total of over 90 new bacterial and archaeal families, as well as nearly 300 new types of microbe genera in the hot springs on Brothers volcano.
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Mysterious Dyatlov Pass Incident That Killed Entire Team Of Hikers May Have Just Been Solved
In 1959, a team of Russian hikers set off on an expedition into the Ural Mountains, only for the whole group to perish in baffling circumstances. The Dyatlov Pass Incident as it became known would become one of history’s greatest adventure mysteries, but scientists may have just solved it. Despite claims of aliens, yetis, and military involvement, simulations of conditions on the mountain pass suggest a small, delayed avalanche may be the culprit that brought about the strange events that happened that day. Or did it?
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Personalized Skin Cancer Vaccine Appears Effective In Clinical Trial
A four-year-long Phase 1 trial of a personalized skin cancer vaccine has concluded and shows that the vaccine has huge promise in fighting off melanoma over a long period of time. The vaccine, called NeoVax, stimulates the immune system to attack tumor cells in patients with high-risk deadly melanoma. It was successful in bringing about an immune response in all eight patients who received it – all of which survived the trial period, and six of which were disease-free after four years.
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