Images from camera traps in Udzungwa. From left: female leopard, hyena, male leopard. Credit: Rasmus W. Havmøller Who is stronger? A lone leopard or giggling hyenas? And what is the…
Laser light passing through the transparent crystal and exciting the thorium nucleus. Credit: James Terhune, Hudson Group, UCLA For nearly 50 years, physicists have dreamed of the secrets they could…
This image from the simulation shows a supermassive black hole, or quasar, surrounded by a rotating disk of material called an accretion disk. Credit: Caltech/Phil Hopkins group A team of…
The small roundworm C.elegans is the focus of a new study examining 3'UTRs. These short segments of RNA play a critical role in gene regulation. The resulting map, the product…
Credit: Harrison Haynes from Pexels The remarkable aurora at the beginning of May this year demonstrated the power that solar storms can emit as radiation, but sometimes the sun does…
A group of sheep. Credit: INRAE - Sophie Normant Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique commonly used to study the brains of sheep. Until now, this was only done…
An extremely cold gas of strontium atoms is trapped in a grid of light known as an optical grating. The atoms are kept in an ultra-high vacuum environment, meaning there…
Lithouva - the earliest fossil grape from the Western Hemisphere, ~60 million years from Columbia. The top figure shows a fossil accompanied by a CT reconstruction. The lower part shows…
This infrared image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was taken by the Near Infrared Camera for the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey program - Photo: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI,…
This photo provided by NASA shows the Starliner spacecraft docked to the International Space Station's Harmony module orbiting 262 miles above the Mediterranean coast of Egypt on June 13, 2024.…