This image depicts a trap nest containing a mason wasp (Antherhynchium flavomarginatum) pupa, left; and a mason wasp larva, right, that has been parasitized by the larva of the wasp parasitoid Lycogaster violaceipennis.
Credit: Felix Fornoff, University of Freiburg
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Spacecraft Cassini with an instrument from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics on board (in red circle) passed through Saturn’s atmosphere.
Credit: Artist’s impression: NASA
A Langmuir probe, developed in Sweden and flown to Saturn on the Cassini spacecraft, has made...
White-headed capuchin in Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica.
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Rhesus macaques and capuchin monkeys can find a stable solution when playing a competitive game in which one opponent always does better than the other, but only...
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...
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...
Brookhaven Lab scientists (from left) Ivan Bozovic, Xi He, Jie Wu, and Anthony Bollinger with the atomic layer-by-layer molecular beam epitaxy system used to synthesize the superconducting cuprate samples.
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory
The perfect performance of superconductors could revolutionize everything...
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...
Ginkgo fossil.
Credit: Stephen McLoughlin
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in establishing the relationships between 200-million-year-old plants based on chemical fingerprints. Using infrared spectroscopy and statistical analysis of organic molecules in fossil leaves, they are opening up new perspectives...
Treatment with a genome editing agent can preserve sound-detecting bristles in the inner ear of mice with genetic deafness (white box, left). Without the treatment, these bristles disappear (white box, right).
Credit: Gao et al. /Nature 2017
Using molecular scissors wrapped...
Helobdella robusta, a tiny freshwater leech that attacks and kills snails.
Credit: Photo by Ajna S. Rievra/UC Berkeley
Leeches, despite the yuck factor, have captured the hearts of two University of California, Berkeley, scientists who are part of a team...
Water (stock image). Researchers have used cobalt oxide nanoparticles to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
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Researchers from the University of Houston have found a catalyst that can quickly generate hydrogen from water using sunlight, potentially...
