The aye-aye has been filmed picking its nose with its extra-long middle finger. When scientists caught the aye-aye on video using its strangely thin, eight-centimeter-long middle finger to deeply pick...
Black-capped (left) and mountain chickadee (right) caught at CU Boulder's Mountain Research Station. Credit: Georgy Semenov Hybrids of two common North American songbirds, the black-capped and mountain chickadee, are more...
Chromophores interspersed in the phycobilisome of cyanobacteria act as tiny antennas, capturing sunlight. The energy is then conveyed to photosystems at the base of the phycobilisome. Credit: RIKEN SPring-8 Center...
White-lipped pecaries. Credit: Jose Fragoso A collaborative study published in PLOS ONE documents the periodic disappearance (and reappearance) of white-lipped peccaries in nine countries in South and Central America. The...
Co-cultures of bacterial strains that produce (magenta) or consume (cyan) nitric oxide show range-dependent growth and lead to single cell intermixing in the absence of oxygen. Scale bar represents 10...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Northwestern Medicine investigators have solved a challenging protein design puzzle using a unique high-throughput approach, according to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy...
An immune cell that has been infected by Toxoplasma parasites (red). The surface of the cell is colored in green and the nucleus of the cell in blue (Image: Antonio...
Impact of local sliding PAMs on gRNA efficiency and specificity. a Cas9-gRNA binding model in which guanine stretches upstream and downstream from the on-target PAM can function as local sliding...
The skull of Hope, the blue whale that hangs in the Museum's Hintze Hall, was sampled for this study. This image, taken during the Museum's closure due to the COVID-19...