What do leeches, limpets and worms have in common? Now, a sequenced genome
Helobdella robusta, a tiny freshwater leech that attacks and kills snails.
Credit: Photo by Ajna S. Rievra/UC Berkeley
Leeches, despite the yuck factor, have captured...
Genomic frontier — The unexplored animal kingdom: Genomes of limpet, leech and worm put...
The genomes of the owl limpet (pictured), a freshwater leech and an ocean-dwelling worm are among the first sequenced genomes from a vast, understudied...
Minor merger kicks supermassive black hole into high gear
The deep image of Messier 77 taken with the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) mounted at the Subaru Telescope. The picture is created by adding the...
Uncomfortable sight from an ancient reflex of the eye
These are the three lead investigators -- left to right: Geoffrey Aguirre, Manuel Spitschan, David Brainard.
Credit: Tommy Leonardi
The eyes are for seeing, but...
How a $10 microchip turns 2-D ultrasound machines into 3-D imaging devices
Technology that keeps track of how your smartphone is oriented can now give $50,000 ultrasound machines many of the 3-D imaging abilities of their...
Medical-like tools for NASA to study samples of the solar system
A NASA team scanned these terrestrial rock samples, all measuring two to four inches in diameter, to investigate possibilities for future in-space use of...
‘Monster’ planet discovery challenges formation theory
This is an artist's impression of the cool red star above NGTS-1b.
Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick
A giant planet, which should not exist according...
The world’s shortest laser pulse: Seeing electron movement during chemical reactions
Thomas Gaumnitz, postdoctoral fellow in the group of ETH professor Hans Jakob Wörner with the setup that generates the shortest laser pulses in the...
Humans don’t use as much brainpower as we like to think
A tiny treeshrew brain saps just as much of the body's energy as a human brain, researchers report. Shown in red are the blood...
