Diversity in tomato fruit weight is explained in part by a mutation in the Cell Size Regulator gene that arose during domestication.
Credit: Alexis Ramos and Esther van der Knaap, University of Georgia Athens GA 30602 CC-BY
Farmers can grow big,...
This is a cluster of spring-loaded daggers inside a bacterium. Green shows them in their 'loaded' form, red after the dagger has been launched.
Credit: Leo Popovich
Bacteria have to watch out for amoeba. Hungry amoebae hunt them: they catch them...
A rosette sampler captures water at specified depths at Station ALOHA.
Credit: Tara Clemente, UH M?noaenter
Microbes dominate the planet, especially the ocean, and help support the entire marine food web. In a recent report published in Nature Microbiology, University of...
Deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the Pescadero Basin emit scalding liquids that form light-colored carbonate spires. These vents have been colonized by the largest and densest colonies of Oasisia alvinae tubeworms ever observed.
Credit: © 2015 MBARI
An article just published in...
This is EVE, the artificial womb.
Credit: Women and Infants Research Foundation
An artificial womb has been successfully used to incubate healthy baby lambs for a period of one week, and researchers hope the technology will one day be able to...
The cosmic velocity web is represented by surfaces of knots in red and surfaces of filaments in gray. The black lines with arrows illustrate local velocity flows within filaments and toward knots. The Laniakea Supercluster basin of attraction that...
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 large tyrannosaurine dinosaur. The paper shows that the skull of a genus of tyrannosaur called...
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 healthy and cancerous breast tissue. Above, the microscopic image shows different cell types in the...
It can be disadvantageous to have too much vitamin D.
Credit: © Le Do / Fotolia
The level of vitamin D in our blood should neither be too high nor to low. Scientists from the University of Copenhagen are the first...
The source of new hair: For the first time, researchers have been able to take human dermal papilla cells (those inside the base of human hair follicles) and use them to create new hairs.
Credit: Claire Higgins/Christiano Lab at Columbia...
Female fruit fly, Anastrepha fraterculus, over an artificial lek.
Credit: M. Laura Juterez et al.; CC-BY 4.0
Fruit flies mating compatibility studies have been examined by an international team of researchers to assess the usefulness of walk-in field cages in studying...
