The genetic material of the HIV virus is encased in multiple structures that hide it from the host immune system. The capsid, in blue, protects the virus after it enters a cell and shuttles it to the nucleus, where...
MIT scientists have determined the structure of an enzyme that is found in ocean microbes and can produce a precursor to methane.
Credit: David Born
Industrial and agricultural activities produce large amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global...
A hidden or 'choked' jet (white) powering a radio-emitting 'cocoon' (pink) is the best explanation for the radio waves, gamma rays and X-rays the astronomers observed.
Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF: D. Berr
Three months of observations with the National Science Foundation's Karl G....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Analogue black hole machine is pictured.
Credit: The University of Nottingham
Scientists at the University of Nottingham have made a significant leap forward in understanding the workings of one of the mysteries of the universe. They have successfully simulated the conditions...
The atmospheric superrotation at the upper clouds of Venus. While the superrotation is present in both day and night sides of Venus, it seems more uniform in the day (AKATSUKI-UVI image at 360 nm, right side), while in the...
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...
