Image of chromosomes in uncondensed form (left) and condensed form in dividing cell (right).
Credit: The lab of Ken Zaret, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Prior to cell division, chromosomes are seemingly a jumbled mess. During cell division,...
This figure shows the risk that freshwater fish (top) and marine fish (bottom) could exceed their thermal limits by the year 2070. Blue indicates a low risk and red shows a high risk.
Credit: University of Washington
Climate change will force...
This infographic represents the roadmaps developed by Jacobson et al for 139 countries to use 100 percent wind-water-solar in all energy sectors by 2050.
Credit: The Solutions Project
The latest roadmap to a 100% renewable energy future from Stanford's Mark Z....
Marine ecologist Emmett Duffy of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center works on a boat in Panama's Bocas Del Toro Research Station. Duffy directs the Smithsonian's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO), an international network of sites that track biodiversity in...
This is methane gas leakage near a well.
Credit: ROV KIEL6000, GEOMAR
The pictures went around the world. In April 2010, huge amounts of methane gas escaped from a well below the Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of...
An artist's depiction of the promise of carbon nanotube porins for desalination. The image depicts a stylized carbon nanotube pipe that delivers clean desalinated water from the ocean to a kitchen tap.
Credit: Image by Ryan Chen/LLNL
Lawrence Livermore...
The black hole named Cygnus X-1 formed when a large star caved in. This black hole pulls matter from the blue star beside it.
Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
Physicists have described how observations of gravitational waves limit the possible explanations for...
Fish are expected to shrink dramatically in warmer waters.
Credit: Lindsay Lafreniere
Fish are expected to shrink in size by 20 to 30 per cent if ocean temperatures continue...
This is a driver inside the car. The inset shows his eye movement.
Credit: Otto Lappi
All drivers know from personal experience that they must keep their eyes on the road when driving through curves. But how exactly does looking at...
After conducting a new research approach using actual commutes, a group of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis discovered a simple shift in driving habits can help to reduce those risks while out on the road.
Credit: Washington University...
CarbFix I pilot CO2 injection site during wireline diamond drilling to recover a 150 m of core from the CO2 storage reservoir in 2014 (~2 years after CO2 injection). Steam emissions from the Hellisheidi geothermal powerplant are visible in...
