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Puzzle Bobble 2X / BUST-A-MOVE 2 Arcade Edition & Puzzle Bobble 3 / BUST-A-MOVE 3 S-Tribute launches February 2
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Here is an overview of the game, via City Connection:
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Puzzle Bobble is a series of puzzle games in which the player fires bubbles from the bottom of the screen, and the bubbles pop when three or more of the same color stick together.
The player clears each stage when they meet the conditions for that stage. Higher points are scored when many bubbles are dropped at once or when bubbles are popped by shooting bubbles and bouncing them off the walls.
Have fun playing alone in puzzle mode, where you can take your time solving puzzles, or with a friend in versus mode, where you fire bubbles at each other.
Enjoy ports of the Arcade [19 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/arcade”>arcade games Puzzle Bobble 2X and Puzzle Bobble 3, as well as four home console versions released in Japan and abroad, with added original modes.
The games also have new features such as rewind, slow mode, and quick save, which are perfect for practice, strategizing, and stage creation.
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- Challenge Mode – Meet certain conditions to clear stages (Puzzle Bobble 3 / BUST-A-MOVE 3).
- Collection Mode – Play a total of 1,026 stages designed by players from the time (Puzzle Bobble 3).
- Edit Mode – Place bubbles in the field to create your own stages (Puzzle Bobble 2X / BUST-A-MOVE 2 Arcade Edition).
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- Rewind – Rewind gameplay a by certain amount of time and resume.
- Slow Mode – Slow game pace down with a single button press.
- Quick Save / Load – Save game state at any point.
- Unlimited Credits – The limit on the number of continues can be disabled, allowing for infinite continues.
- Scan Lines – Mimics the nostalgic CRT monitor display.
About the S-Tribute Series
Reprints of classics produced and developed by City Connection with the Zebra Engine during the Saturn era. Play a variety of titles with improved controls and new features.
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“Weird Wonder” Fossil Discovery Adds Piece to Puzzle of Arthropod Evolution
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Welsh “weird wonder” fossils provide new clues to the history of arthropod evolution.
The most famous fossils from the Cambrian explosion of animal life, which occurred over half a billion years ago, stand in stark contrast to their modern counterparts. These “weird wonders,” such as the five-eyed Opabinia with its distinctive frontal proboscis, and the fearsome apex predator Anomalocaris with its radial mouthparts and spiny feeding appendages, have become icons in popular culture. However, they were only quite recently recognized as extinct stages of evolution that are crucial for understanding the origins of one of the largest and most important animal phyla, the arthropods (a group that includes modern crabs, spiders, and millipedes).
Two new specimens with striking similarities to Opabinia are described in an article published recently in the journal
The Cambrian explosion, or the biological big bang, refers to an interval of time around 530 million years ago in the Cambrian Period when nearly all major animal phyla began to appear in the fossil record.
The quarry is well known as one of several local sites yielding new species of fossil sponges. “When the lockdown started, I thought I’d make one more trip to collect some last sponges before finally writing them up,” said Botting, “of course, that was the day that I found something sticking its tentacles out of a tube instead.”
“This is the sort of thing that paleontologists dream of, truly soft-body preservation,” said Muir, “we didn’t sleep well, that night.” That was the beginning of an extensive and ongoing investigation that grew into an international collaboration, with lead author Dr. Stephen Pates (University of Cambridge) and senior author Dr. Joanna Wolfe (The Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University).
Among the fossils unearthed so far are two very unexpected leftovers from the Cambrian “weird wonders.” Pates met with Botting and Muir to study the specimens using microscopes purchased through crowd-funding to examine the tiny specimens. The larger specimen measured 13 mm (0.5 inches), while the smaller measured a minuscule 3 mm (0.12 inches). For comparison, Opabinia specimens can be 20 times as long).
Exhaustive studies during this visit revealed additional details in the new specimens. Some of these features are also found in Opabinia, such as triangular, squishy lobopod ‘legs’ for interacting with the sediment, and—in the smaller specimen – a tail fan with blades similar in shape to Opabinia’s recently described sister, Utaurora. However other features recognized in the material, such as sclerites covering the head as well as the presence of spines on the proboscis, were not known from any opabiniid and instead hinted at possible radiodont (including Anomalocaris) affinities. The differences between the two specimens led the researchers to wonder were these due to changes during the growth of one species, or did they instead suggest that two distinct species were present in this new deposit?
The Ordovician periond spans 41.6 million years from the end of the Cambrian Period 485.4 million years ago (Mya) to the start of the Silurian Period 443.8 Mya.
The authors describe the new taxon, Mieridduryn bonniae, with the larger specimen designated the holotype. The status of the smaller specimen was left open, reflecting these different possibilities. “The size of the smaller specimen is comparable to some modern arthropod larvae – we had to take into account this possibility in our analyses,” said Wolfe.
The genus name Mieridduryn is derived from the Welsh language, and translates as “bramble-snout,” reflecting the spiny proboscis in the new material. It is pronounced like “me-airy-theerin.” “Many scientific names are made using Latin or Greek words,” Muir said, “but we really wanted to honor Wales, where the specimens were discovered, and so chose to use the Welsh language.” The species name bonniae pays tribute to the niece of the landowners, Bonnie. “The landowners have been very supportive of our research, and Bonnie has been avidly following our progress, even attending some of our Zoom updates,” said Botting.
The researchers used phylogenetic analyses, comparing the new fossils with 57 other living and fossil arthropods, radiodonts, and panarthropods, to determine their place in the history of arthropod evolution. “The best-supported position for our Welsh specimens, whether considered as one or two species, were more closely related to modern arthropods than to opabiniids. These analyses suggested that Mieridduryn and the smaller specimen were not “true” opabiniids,” said Pates.
Crucially, these results suggested that a proboscis—thought to represent a fused pair of head appendages—was not unique to opabiniids, but instead was present in the common ancestor of radiodonts and deuteropods (more derived, modern arthropods), and through evolutionary time may have reduced to become the labrum that covers the mouth in modern arthropods. However, the second-best-supported position for these specimens was as true opabiniids, so the authors enquired a bit further to test the robustness of this first result.
“These Welsh animals are 40 million years younger than Opabinia and Utaurora” said Wolfe, “so it was important to assess the implications of some features, such as spines on the appendages or a carapace, evolving convergently with radiodonts in our analyses.” If some, or all, the features shared between the Welsh animals and radiodonts were instead considered to have evolved convergently, the analyses strongly favored these specimens being considered true opabiniids, the first from outside North America and the youngest by 40 million years. Whatever the eventual conclusion, the fossils are an important new piece in the arthropod evolutionary jigsaw.
These small but scientifically mighty fossils are some of the first findings from this important new Ordovician fauna. Botting and Muir continue their work in the small quarry in the sheep field with more still to come. Muir added, “Even the sheep know we are on to something special here, they usually come to watch.”
Reference: “Ordovician opabiniid-like animals and the role of the proboscis in euarthropod head evolution” by Stephen Pates, Joseph P. Botting, Lucy A. Muir and Joanna M. Wolfe, 15 November 2022, Nature Communications.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34204-w
Contributors to the crowdfunding appeal to purchase the microscopes (including a Holloway Bursary from the Warwickshire Geological Conservation Society) are gratefully acknowledged. Additional funding was provided by a University of Cambridge Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chinese Academy of Sciences PIFI fellowships (2020VCB0014 and 2018VCB0014). This work was also supported by the National Science Foundation DEB #1856679.
The specimen is accessioned at Amgueddfa Cymru—National Museum Wales.
Mysterious, concentric rings around star in new James Webb Space Telescope image puzzle astronomers
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed strangely shaped concentric rings around a distant star that they cannot fully explain – with one scientist calling the image ‘bonkers.’
WR140, a star that’s in the constellation Cygnus and resides around 5,600 light-years from Earth, is surrounded by curved yet oddly boxy rings that are red-colored in the image that was shared on Twitter by citizen scientist Judy Schmidt.
‘Nope, I don’t know what this is. Some kind of spiral nebula around WR140. I’m sure we’ll find out more later,’ Schmidt wrote.
Mark McCaughrean, a senior advisor for science and exploration at the European Space Agency and a member of the James Webb Space Telescope Science Working Group, said: ‘Well that’s bonkers.’
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WR140, a star that’s in the constellation Cygnus and resides around 5,600 light-years from Earth, is surrounded by curved yet oddly boxy rings that are red-colored in the image that was shared on Twitter by citizen scientist Judy Schmidt
Mark McCaughrean noted that WR140 is what’s called a Wolf-Rayet star, which eject much of their hydrogen into space and tend to be surrounded by dust that can be shaped into strange shells by a companion star
‘The six-pointed blue structure is an artefact due to optical diffraction from the bright star WR140 in this #JWST MIRI image,’ he said, in reference to the way that Webb’s mirrors bend light to create the spikes.
‘But red curvy-yet-boxy stuff is real, a series of shells around WR140. Actually in space. Around a star.’
McCaughrean noted that WR140 is what’s called a Wolf-Rayet star, which eject much of their hydrogen into space and tend to be surrounded by dust that can be shaped into strange shells by a companion star.
These types of stars are known to be extremely massive – often 15 times the mass of the sun – and will burn through their core fuel quickly. They exhibit very fast winds, can become extremely bright and will often create a stunning nebulae around them made of blown-off gas.
‘Nope, I don’t know what this is. Some kind of spiral nebula around WR140. I’m sure we’ll find out more later,’ citizen scientist Judy Schmidt wrote on Twitter
‘This promises to be another area revolutionized by JWST though, putting its diffraction-limited resolution & extreme thermal-infrared sensitivity to very good use, helping us to understand the final evolutionary stages of live-fast-die-young massive stars,’ he said
‘Yes, those nested “squircular” rings are real,’ Ryan Lau, an astronomer at NOIRLab and principal investigator of the project that acquired the observations, said on Twitter. ‘Our paper on this has been submitted so please stay tuned for the full story.’
Schmidt later replied to her own thread: ‘They do look like airy rings, but they aren’t. They’re shells of gas and dust.’
‘The red shells are real physical structures around the Wolf-Rayet star: they’re famous for such things, carved out of their dust ejects by the orbits of binary companions. But this is an especially spectacular example from #JWST.’ McCaughrean said.
Lau and his colleagues published a paper in the Astrophysical Journal on another Wolf-Rayet star called WR112.
‘Exactly what the geometry is in WR140, with the curved & yet boxy shells, isn’t immediately obvious to me & why there are discrete, separated shells rather than a spiral structure … well, I’m sure Ryan & his colleagues are working on that right now,’ McCaughrean added later.
‘This promises to be another area revolutionized by JWST though, putting its diffraction-limited resolution & extreme thermal-infrared sensitivity to very good use, helping us to understand the final evolutionary stages of live-fast-die-young massive stars,’ he said, including a picture of Elvis Presley with his tweet.
This latest image comes shortly after the first picture of an exoplanet located 385 light-years from Earth.
The telescope used its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) that can block out surrounding starlight to snap epic images of the exoplanet HIP 65426.
The alien world was first discovered in 2017 by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, in Chile, but the long wavelengths were blocked by Earth’s atmosphere.
The exoplanet is just 15 to 20 million years old, which is much younger to our 4.5-billion-year-old Earth.
‘But Webb’s first capture of an exoplanet already hints at future possibilities for studying distant worlds,’ NASA shared in a statement.
‘Exactly what the geometry is in WR140, with the curved & yet boxy shells, isn’t immediately obvious to me & why there are discrete, separated shells rather than a spiral structure … well, I’m sure Ryan & his colleagues are working on that right now,’ McCaughrean later added. ABOVE: A James Webb Space Telescope image of Stephan’s Quartet
Lau and his colleagues published a paper in the Astrophysical Journal on another Wolf-Rayet star called WR112. ABOVE: a James Webb Space Telescope image of the Southern Ring Nebula
Mysterious rings in new Webb image puzzle astronomers
The James Webb Space Telescope captured mysterious concentric rings around a distant star that astronomers are still working to explain.
The image, taken in July, was released on Twitter by citizen scientist Judy Schmidt, prompting a torrent of comments and head-scratching. It shows a star known as WR140 surrounded by regular ripple-like circles that gradually fade away. The circles, however, are not perfectly round, but have a somewhat square-like feel to them, prompting speculations about possible alien origins.
“I think it’s just nature doing something that is simple, but when we look at it from only one viewpoint it seems impossible, at first, to understand that it is a natural phenomenon,” Schmidt told Space.com in an email. “Why is it shaped the way it is? Why is it so regular?”
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Mark McCaughrean, an interdisciplinary scientist in the James Webb Space Telescope Science Working Group and a science advisor to the European Space Agency, called the feature “bonkers” in a Twitter thread.
“The six-pointed blue structure is an artifact due to optical diffraction from the bright star WR140 in this #JWST MIRI image,” he wrote. “But red curvy-yet-boxy stuff is real, a series of shells around WR140. Actually in space. Around a star.”
He noted that WR140 is what astronomers call a Wolf-Rayet star, which have spat much of their hydrogen into space. These objects are also surrounded by dust, he added, which a companion star is sculpting into the strange shells.
Astronomers will know more soon thanks to a scientific paper currently under review about this mysterious phenomenon.
“Yes, those nested ‘squircular’ rings are real,” Ryan Lau, an astronomer at NOIRLab and principal investigator of the project that acquired the observations, replied to the Twitter thread. “Our paper on this has been submitted so please stay tuned for the full story.”
WR140, located some 5,600 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cygnus, is a so-called variable star that periodically dims and brightens. Whether the star’s variability has anything to do with the mysterious ripples remains to be seen.
The image, however, demonstrates the power of the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful observatory ever sent to space, which has been hailed for its revolutionary infrared vision and superkeen eye.
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James Webb Space Telescope’s Latest Puzzle? ‘Schrodinger’s Galaxy Candidate’
Astronomers armed with early data obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are hunting galaxies that existed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
Rohan Naidu, an astrophysicist based at Harvard’s and Smithsonian’s jointly operated Center for Astrophysics, and his colleagues have been particularly good at uncovering these cosmic relics.
Just a few days after the JWST’s first images were beamed across the planet in July, Naidu and his collaborators dropped a paper that reverberated across the web, picking up a real head of steam on social media. Using data from the ‘scope, the researchers announced that they’d discovered a candidate for the most distant galaxy ever seen, dubbed GLASS-z13. Then, not even a week later, a number of groups found candidate galaxies ever farther away.
It’s not surprising, then, that we have yet another candidate.
In a pre-print paper, released on Aug. 5 and yet to undergo peer review, Naidu and colleagues have detailed another distant galaxy candidate, from one of JWST’s early release science programs, known as CEERS-1749. It’s an extremely bright galaxy that, if confirmed, would have existed just 220 million years after the Big Bang — and it could also rewrite our understanding of the cosmos.
But there’s a huge catch.
CEERS-1749 could be one of the most distant galaxies we’ve ever seen. Or it could be lurking much closer to home. Essentially, the data seems to indicate two possible places for the galaxy to be — and we won’t know which one is correct without a lot more observation. That’s earned it the title of “Schrodinger’s galaxy candidate” in the paper submitted to pre-print repository, arXiv, on Aug. 4.
So, how can a galaxy like Schrodinger (the name we’re running with because it’s way more fun than CEERS-1749) seem to be in two different places? It’s all about redshift.
To determine how far away a galaxy lies, astronomers study wavelengths of light. Specifically, they’re interested in a phenomenon of light known as redshift. In a nutshell, light waves leaving distant galaxies get stretched over time, shifting the waves down the electromagnetic spectrum and making them more, well… red. So, ultraviolet light leaving a galaxy like Schrodinger won’t reach Earth as ultraviolet light. Instead, it will be redshifted down into the infrared, which is great for us because that’s just the kind of light JWST searches for.
And JWST has various filters, looking at distinct wavelengths of infrared. In examining a galaxy like Schrodinger, you can flick through the wavelengths like you might flick through a photo album. On the first few pages — fewer red wavelengths — you won’t see a thing. Then, as you turn through and the wavelengths become more red, the ghost of a galaxy appears. In the most redshifted wavelengths, at the back of the album, the galaxy is a clearly defined object.
Redshift is denoted by the parameter z and higher z values mean a more distant object. One of the confirmed most-distant galaxies discovered to date, GN-z11, has a z value of 11.09. In the case of Schrodinger, the research team state it could have a z value of around 17. That would mean this light is from a time some 13.6 billion years ago.
This would also mean we might need to rethink our models of how galaxies evolved in the earliest days of the universe — galaxies from that long ago should not be this bright, at least according to the model we currently use to explain our cosmos.
But maybe we don’t need to break physics just yet.
The team suggest there is good environmental evidence that Schrodinger’s z value might be around 5, which would mean its light is about 12.5 billion years old. Other galaxies in the region around Schrodinger all lie at about this distance. It might even be that Schrodinger is a satellite galaxy of one of its more massive neighbors.
But wait, there’s more! Another group of researchers also studied this exact same galaxy from the early release data, publishing their own results to arXiv on the same day. Jorge Zavala, an astrophysicist at ALMA Japan, and his team added to the JWST data with data from an Earth-based telescopes in the French Alps and Hawaii.
They came to the conclusion that Schrodinger might be an imposter masquerading as a high-redshift galaxy when it’s actually a much closer, dusty galaxy undergoing rapid star formation.
The take-home message? Work on this perplexing galaxy candidate is incomplete. JWST has been able to study the intensity of the light emitted by Schrodinger, but we need more measurements. In particular, spectroscopy will allow astrophysicists to scrutinize its redshift more accurately. The only barrier now is time — getting enough time on telescopes around the world to study Schrodinger and solve the puzzle.