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,...
Will virtual reality rob future students of the awe and wonder naturalists experience when exploring nature?
Virtual reality has nothing on nature. Just ask the UC Santa Barbara students who one recent day trekked to a forest before dawn to...
Researchers team has developed inks made of graphene-like materials for inkjet printing. New black phosphorous inks are compatible with conventional inkjet printing techniques for optoelectronics and photonics.
Credit: University of Cambridge
An international research team has developed inks made of graphene-like...
Cave city in volcanic rocks of uplifted Central Anatolian plateau.
Credit: Russell Pysklywec
When renowned University of Toronto (U of T) geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson cemented concepts in the emerging field of plate tectonics in the 1960s, he revolutionized the study...
The tubeworm species Escarpia laminata.
Credit: Image courtesy of the Chemo III project, BOEM and NOAA OER
Large tubeworms living in the cold depths of the Gulf of Mexico may be among the longest living animals in the world. This is...
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...
After an infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the virus persists in the body throughout a person's lifetime.
Credit: © Henri-Jacques Delecluse/DKFZ
After an infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the virus persists in the body throughout a person's lifetime, usually...
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...
Bang! A new moon crater appeared between Oct. 25, 2012, and April 21, 2013. At 12 meters (40 feet) wide, the crater is not hard to spot in the image, but the starburst pattern of ejected debris is elusive...
Nelson Sepulveda is a nanotechnology researcher and associate professor of engineering at Michigan State University.
Credit: Michigan State University
A paper-thin, flexible device created at Michigan State University not only can generate energy from human motion, it can act as a...
University of Calgary Professor Jason Anderson, right, and doctoral student Jason Pardo published a paper in Nature about new insights into the ancient Scottish fossil called Lethiscus stocki.
Credit: Photo by Riley Brandt, University of Calgary
"It's like a snake on...
