Photo and sketch of the confiscated specimen showing three different juveniles of the same species of dinosaur preserved in roosting posture, immediately next to each other.
Credit: Gregory Funston
The Mongolian Desert has been known for decades for its...
This is Vasilii Petrenko loading an ice core into the melting chamber for extraction of trapped ancient air.
Credit: Xavier Fain
In 2011 a team of researchers led by Vasilii Petrenko, an assistant professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences...
Common swift.
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They are among nature's best fliers, spending most of their time in flight ... now scientists have shed new light on how swifts can glide with ease, whatever the weather.
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Charted data clearly illustrate a progressive improvement over the millennia in the genetic foundations of health, in nearly all diseases examined. Smaller shapes indicate better overall foundations. The dotted round line labeled 50% indicates average modern human...
Artist's rendering of bioreactor (left) loaded with bacteria decorated with cadmium sulfide, light-absorbing nanocrystals (middle) to convert light, water and carbon dioxide into useful chemicals (right).
Credit: Kelsey K. Sakimoto
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Humboldt's flying squirrel.
Credit: Nicholas J Kerhoulas
Scientists always assumed it was a northern flying squirrel gliding through the canopies of Pacific coastal forests. But now a recent in-depth...
A species of herbivore (a larva from the genus of butterflies Synargis) being tended by an ant (of the species Ectatomma tuberculatum). They are on one of the study species, Inga thiboudiana.
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Individuals who have a high level of moral reasoning show increased activity in the brain's frontostriatal reward system.
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Individuals who have a high...
University of Illinois doctoral student Austin Mudd examines piglet brain images.
Credit: Stephanie Henry
Gut microbes have been in the news a lot lately. Recent studies show they can...
Deep Lake in the Vestfold Hills region of Antarctica. The 36-metre deep lake is so salty it remains in liquid form down to a temperature of minus 20 degrees.
Credit: UNSW Sydney
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This digitally-colorized scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image shows Salmonella bacteria (red) invading an immune cell (yellow). Salmonella Typhi is the cause of typhoid fever. Researchers at Duke have discovered human genetic variation can impact both...
