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Injectable tissue patch could help repair damaged organs
The flexible tissue scaffold, shown here emerging from a glass pipette with a tip one millimetre wide, unfolds itself after injection into the body....
Cosmic velocity web: Motions of thousands of galaxies mapped
The cosmic velocity web is represented by surfaces of knots in red and surfaces of filaments in gray. The black lines with arrows illustrate...
Cassini says goodbye to a true Titan
These two views of Saturn's moon Titan exemplify how NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed the surface of this fascinating world.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Mere weeks...
New dinosaur species sheds light on evolution, provides facial makeover for...
The massive field jackets containing the bones of the adult specimen of Daspletosaurus horneri were hauled out by a mule-drawn sled in August 2001....
New evidence for combat and cannibalism in tyrannosaurs
This is an artist's reconstruction of combat between two Daspletosaurus.
Credit: Copyright Luis Rey
A new study documents injuries inflicted in life and death to a...
Firmer, fitter frame linked to firmer, fitter brain
An illustration of magnetic resonance elastography (MRE). MRE is a non-invasive technique that was used to measure how pulsed waves changed as they moved...
Mercury is altering gene expression
Green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a model system for molecular biology and environmental studies.
Credit: © Dartmouth College Electron Microscope Facility, Louisa Howard
The mercury found at...
Seven complete specimens of new flower, all 100 million years old
Tropidogyne pentaptera. 100-million-year-old fossilized flower identified and named by OSU researchers George Poinar Jr. and Kenton Chambers.
Credit: Image courtesy of George Poinar Jr., Oregon...
New genomic insights reveal a surprising two-way journey for apple on...
This is a map depicting apple's ancient journey along the Silk Road.
Credit: Alexa M Schmitz/Yang Bai
Centuries ago, the ancient networks of the Silk Road...
RNA molecule that shields breast cancer stem cells from immune system
Researchers from Princeton University's Department of Molecular Biology have identified a small RNA molecule that helps maintain the activity of stem cells in both...
NEETs are prime suspects in breast cancer proliferation
This is an enlarged illustration of a mitoNEET protein backbone fold (pink and purple) with essential iron-sulfur clusters (orange and yellow) is superimposed on...
