This image shows (from left) Noah Roy, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research associate in Dr. Zakharenko's lab, and first author Jay Blundon, Ph.D., an associate scientist in Dr. Zakharenko's lab.
Credit: Seth Dixon / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Learning language or...
The weight of an ant tower is supported by a wider cross-section at its base, which allows the ants to better distribute their weight.
Credit: Georgia Tech
If you want to see the Eiffel Tower, you don't have to go to...
Dan-Anders Jirenhed and Anders Rasmussen.
Credit: Image courtesy of Lund University
Almost everything we do -- walking, talking, or drinking coffee -- is completely dependent on accurate timing when activating many muscles at once. The prevailing theory has been that the...
Reconstruction of Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi.
Credit: Beat Scheffold, Paleontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich
Grisons, 241 million years ago -- Instead of amidst high mountains, a small reptile suns itself on an island beach in a warm shallow sea, where many...
Ocean-bottom seismometers aboard the R/V Welcoma were deployed in the first year of the Cascadia Initiative.
Credit: Dave O'Gorman
Several hundred miles off the Pacific Northwest coast, a small tectonic plate called the Juan de Fuca is slowly sliding under the...
This is an exit hole drilled in a black oak acorn by an insect that lays its egg on the developing flowers and hatches inside the acorn. Shot at the Tyson ForestGEO plot in Eureka, Missouri.
Credit: Jonathan Myers
If aliens...
The dog is the oldest domesticated animal and during thousands of years it has adapted to a life among humans. During this period dogs have developed unique abilities to communicate and cooperate with humans.
Credit: © Halfpoint / Fotolia
The social...
In the picture above, the same horizontal striped pattern has been added to all of the square backgrounds, yet the pattern is much harder to see on the left. These examples demonstrate the three main background properties that affect...
When confronted with a word, the pupils begin by dilating (0 -- 0.5 s), following the general activation of the brain. When this initial activation has passed, the pupils retract (0.5 -- 2 s). But the size of the...
The new study shows the structure of an important HIV protein, called the envelope glycoprotein, on a common strain of the virus.
Credit: Javier Guenaga
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made another important advance in HIV vaccine design....
Stone arrow head.
Credit: © W.Scott McGill / Fotolia
New research suggests that advances in the production of Early Stone Age tools had less to do with the evolution of language and more to do with the brain networks involved in...
