A mosaic of images from the navigation cameras on the NASA Curiosity rover shows "halos" of lighter-toned bedrock around fractures. These halos comprise high concentrations of silica and indicate that liquid groundwater flowed through the rocks in Gale crater...
These are cardiomyocytes, green, proliferating in a mouse heart after gel injection.
Credit: University of Pennsylvania
In mammals, including humans, the cells that contract the heart muscle and enable it to beat do not regenerate after injury. After a heart attack,...
Purple finches, indicators of healthy coniferous habitat, are declining in the Northwest, according to data from the Klamath Bird Observatory.
Credit: J. Livaudais
Populations of many North American songbirds are declining, and in many cases we don't understand why -- for...
The Earth's magnetosphere is home to the plasma waves being studied by Yuri Shprits and colleagues.
Credit: NASA
In the 1960s, NASA launched six satellites to study Earth's atmosphere, magnetosphere and the space between Earth and the moon. Using observations from...
Black mouse ready to fight. Fighting behaviors and the neurons that represent them are not as fixed as previously believed.
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Adult male mice have a simple repertoire of innate, or instinctive, social behaviors: When encountering a...
This is a macroalgae dominated reef in the Seychelles.
Credit: Nicholas Graham
Researchers examining the impact of climate change on coral reefs have found a way to predict which reefs are likely to recover following bleaching episodes and which won't.
Coral...
Green florescent proteins are responsible for the bioluminescence in sea jellies.
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Nearly 75 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger wondered if the mysterious world of quantum mechanics played a role in biology. A recent finding...
Heliofungia actiniformis uses pulsed inflation to try to survive coral bleaching.
Credit: Brett Lewis, QUT
Coral researchers have for the first time captured the specific behaviour of a coral as it's bleaching.
The team from QUT in Australia used a clever combination...
Stability test of the novel MA(1-x)GuaxPbI3 perovskite material under continuous light illumination compared with the state-of-the-art MAPbI3. A schematic of the device architecture and the simulated crystalline structure is also provided.
Credit: M.K. Nazeeruddin/EPFL
With the power-conversion efficiency of silicon solar...
One of the cichlid fish from Guatemala, Thorichthys meeki, collected by LSU Curator of Ichthyology Prosanta Chakrabarty for the study that refuted the date in which the Isthmus of Panama was formed.
Credit: Courtesy of Prosanta Chakrabarty, LSU
A long-standing fact...
Artist’s view of global teleportation of quantum bits.
Credit: Christoph Hohmann, Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)
MPQ scientists achieve long storage times for photonic quantum bits which break the lower bound for direct teleportation in a global quantum network.
Concerning...
