Tatyana Polenova and Juan Perilla, professors in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Delaware, with a computer-generated model of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Credit: University of Delaware/ Evan Krape and Jeffrey Chase Viewed with a...
The key to the willow warblers' differing migration patterns probably lies in their genes. Credit: Max Lundberg The genetic make-up of a willow warbler determines where it will migrate when winter comes. Studies of willow warblers in Sweden, Finland and the...
This is a map of recent Hawaiian volcanism, highlighting the Loa and Kea tracks. Credit: Tim Jones, ANU A study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has solved the 168-year-old mystery of how the world's biggest and most active volcanoes...
This is a Mursi woman of Nilo-Saharan ancestry. Nilo-Saharan pastoralist populations possess some of the darkest skin in Africa. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found mutations associated with both light and dark pigmentation in a genome-wide association study...
When raised in warm water and exposed to acidic water, bryozoans, honeycomb-shaped sea creatures, dissolved within two months, researchers observed. Credit: Eric Sanford/UC Davis The one-two punch of warming waters and ocean acidification is predisposing some marine animals to dissolving quickly...
Sealings from the archive of Doliche. Credit: Asia Minor Research Centre Classical scholars from the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" of the University of Münster discovered a large number of sealings in south-east Turkey. "This unique group of artefacts comprising...
White-headed capuchin in Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica. Credit: © nicksen / Fotolia 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...
Adams Flat, one of the two sites in Antarctica where microbes were collected. Credit: Phil O'Brien UNSW-Sydney led scientists have discovered that microbes in Antarctica have a previously unknown ability to scavenge hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide from the air...
Antarctica. Credit: Dave Pape, Public Domain It's official: East Antarctica is pushing West Antarctica around. Now that West Antarctica is losing weight--that is, billions of tons of ice per year--its softer mantle rock is being nudged westward by the harder mantle...
AWARE instruments at the WAIS Divide field camp in central West Antarctica in December 2015 under a spectacular optical display ("sun dog") due to atmospheric ice crystals. Credit: Colin Jenkinson, Australian Bureau of Meteorology An area of West Antarctica more than...
The metal-organic framework is set up like a sandwich (a). The molecular textile layer is woven in an active layer that is embedded between so-called sacrificial layers (b). Credit: KIT Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have made major progress...