Misfit plates in the Pacific led Rice University scientists to the discovery of the Malpelo Plate between the Galapagos Islands and the South American coast.
Credit: Illustration by Tuo Zhang/Rice University
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Hirojuki Hikichi and colleagues monitored adults over the age of 65 roughly seven months before the disaster, originally to conduct an analysis about healthy aging -- inadvertently providing baseline information for their "natural experiment" prior to...
A topographic map of the area around the Tibetan Plateau, left, and the map view of the composite strong and weak Asian plate model, right. The composite plate strength model -- with the Asian plate stronger in the west...
Researchers at Berkeley Lab, LLNL and UC Davis are utilizing ground motion estimates from a regional-scale geophysics model to drive infrastructure assessments.
Credit: Image Courtesy of David McCallen
With emerging exascale supercomputers, researchers will soon be able to accurately simulate the...
The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus (in red) produces a sticky sugar molecule (in green) to make a biofilm that is important for its virulence. It covers the fungus and allows it to stick to surfaces and tissues, making it difficult...
Close primate cousins with whom we share 99 percent of our DNA, bonobos will help strangers even when there is no immediate payback, and without having to be asked first.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary
A passer-by drops...
Signals from the polarized cell cortex (in green) in mouse oocytes regulate microtubule tyrosination (white) to generate spindle asymmetry in meiosis I. This asymmetry can be exploited by selfish genetic elements to bias their transmission to the egg as...
These are the three lead investigators -- left to right: Geoffrey Aguirre, Manuel Spitschan, David Brainard.
Credit: Tommy Leonardi
The eyes are for seeing, but they have other important biological functions, including automatic visual reflexes that go on without awareness....
A floating sea pen is anchored off the coast of San Felipe, Mexico where vaquitas will temporarily be held.
Credit: Kerry Coughlin/National Marine Mammal Foundation
An international team of experts has gathered in San Felipe, Mexico at the request of the...
This is a ife reconstruction of Wendiceratops pinhornensis.
Credit: Danielle Dufault
Scientists have discovered a striking new species of horned dinosaur (ceratopsian) based on fossils collected from a bone bed in southern Alberta, Canada. Wendiceratops (WEN-dee-SARE-ah-TOPS) pinhornensis was approximately 6 meters...
Upper panel: This is a livestock-guarding shepherd dog; middle panel: This is a livestock-guarding dog with inferred wolf ancestry (first-generation hybrid); lower panel: This is a wolf (all from Kazbegi, Georgia).
Credit: Photo courtesy of David Tarkhnishvili and Natia Kopaliani
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