Butterfly Tongue
Butterfly Tongue Philippe Verrees, Knokke, Belgium Subject: Butterfly tongue Technique: Rheinberg illumination Magnification: 5x
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Weevil Chao Zhang, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Subject: Weevil, with an extremely long snout Technique: Reflected light Magnification: 4x
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Mosquito David Maitland, Feltwell, United Kingdom Subject: Male Culex pipiens (mosquito) Technique: Reflected (episcopic) diffuse illumination Magnification: 10x
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Mouse Embryo Evan Heller, Fuchs Lab, Rockefeller University, New York, NY Subject: Mouse embryo (16 dpc) expressing the epithelial-specific nuclear marker K14-H2B-GFP, illustrating the pattern of...
View ArticleFruit Fly Larvae
Fruit Fly Larvae Andrew J. Woolley, Kevin Otto, Michelle Drennan, James Clemens, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Subject: Fruit fly larvae Technique:...
View ArticleLice
Lice Györgyi Zséli, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Department of Integrative Neuroendocrinology, Budapest, Hungary Subject: Chewing lice of common buzzard (Colpocephalum platystomus) Technique:...
View ArticleOct 22, 2012
Irregular Starburst Galaxy The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the faint irregular galaxy NGC 3738, a starburst galaxy. The galaxy is in the midst of a violent episode of star formation,...
View ArticleOct 23, 2012
The Grand Valles Valles Marineris, seen at an angle of 45 degrees to the surface in near-true colour and with four times vertical exaggeration. The image covers an area of 630 000 sq km with a ground...
View ArticleA Single Organism
A Single Organism Each filament of the new Desulfobulbaceae doesn't merely represent the end-to-end alignment of many individual microbes, but should be a considered a single multicellular organism,...
View ArticleLive Wire
Live Wire The new Desulfobulbaceae, seen in cross-section above, has a shape seemingly adapted to conducting electricity. Down each bacterium run deep channels, which are aligned continuously as the...
View ArticleBacterial Power Cables
The world's deep seafloors are dark and airless places, but vast swaths may pulse gently with energy conducted through a type of newly discovered bacteria that forms living electrical cables. The...
View ArticleWhat Next?
What Next? In addition to ecological questions, the researchers next want to learn more about the new Desulfobulbaceae's structure and physiology. "These are exciting times for microbiologists," wrote...
View ArticleElectric Ecology
Electric Ecology In just one teaspoon of mud, the researchers found a full half-mile of Desulfobulbaceae cable, and it's not just a Danish phenomenon. Nielsen said other researchers have sent him...
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Wiring Diagram
Wiring Diagram In the photo above, orange strands of the new Desulfobulbaceae stretch in a laboratory beaker between a reddish, oxygen-rich sediment layer and a dark, sulfurous, oxygen-depleted layer....
View ArticleOct 24, 2012
Shoreline of Ancient Titan Sea This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows an ancient southern sea that used to sprawl out near the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan. In an annotated version, the...
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Monster Galaxy Stirred-Up By Black Hole The giant elliptical galaxy in the center of this image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is the most massive and brightest member of the galaxy cluster...
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Bat Love
Bat Love Because this is a family publication, we'll let the authors of "Fellatio by Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time," a study published in 2009 in Public Library of Science One, explain their...
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