12/26/2017 12:12 PM EST
Honeybees on a flower. More about this image In 2012, biologists at the Univrsity of California, (UC), San Diego, published their findings from a study in which they discovered that a small dose of a commonly used crop pesticide turns honeybees into "picky eaters" and affects their ...
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12/26/2017 12:12 PM EST
A molecular cage created by designing specialized protein puzzle pieces. Every color represents a separate protein, where cylindrical segments indicate rigid parts and ribbon-like segments indicate flexible parts of each protein chain. The grey sphere in the protein cage was placed there to ...
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12/26/2017 12:12 PM EST
Gregory Erickson, a researcher from Florida State University who specializes in the use of bone and tooth histology to interpret the paleobiology of dinosaurs, works a fossil site in the Liscomb Bone Bed in northern Alaska. The bones of Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis, a newly described species ...
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12/26/2017 12:12 PM EST
"Biomineral Single Crystals," by Pupa U.P.A. Gilbert and Christopher E. Killian, University of Wisconsin, Madison. These fantastical structures are the microscopic crystals that make up a sea urchin's tooth. Each shade of blue, aqua, green and purple--superimposed with Photoshop on a ...
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12/26/2017 12:12 PM EST
Previously overlooked asymmetry has been found in Arabidopsis and tomato leaves. More about this imageResearch shows that the spiral pattern of leaf formation from the point of growth affects the developing leaf's exposure to the plant hormone auxin. This exposure leads to ...
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12/26/2017 12:12 PM EST
The inner regions of a collapsing, rapidly spinning massive star. The colors indicate entropy, which roughly corresponds to heat: red regions are very hot, while blue regions are cold. The black arrows indicate the direction of the flow of stellar material. The two white curves with black outlines ...
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12/26/2017 12:12 PM EST
From Klaus Schulten's project about HIV infection, this image is of the first all-atom structure of an HIV virus capsid in its tubular form. Schulten and his team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are studying the protein capsid that encases the HIV-1 genome. The process through ...
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12/26/2017 12:12 PM EST
In October 2007, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, and a team of research partners successfully launched a solar telescope to an altitude of 120,000 feet using this balloon, which is larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The test cleared the way for ...
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