05/29/2018 01:00 AM EDT
Science technician Marci Beitch launches a radiosonde in high winds at Summit Station, Greenland, as part of the National Science Foundation-sponsored program, Integrated Characterization of Energy, Clouds, Atmospheric state, and Precipitation at Summit (ICECAPS). More about this ...
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05/29/2018 01:00 AM EDT
These normal epithelial cells primed on a stiff matrix store a mechanical memory of their past matrix stiffness and continue to show high expressions of force-generating proteins even after arriving on a soft matrix (actin in red, myosin in green and cell nuclei in blue). More about this ...
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05/29/2018 01:00 AM EDT
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope have for the first time directly observed granulation patterns on the surface of a star outside the solar system -- the aging cool red giant Gruis. This new image from the PIONIER instrument reveals the convective cells that ...
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05/29/2018 01:00 AM EDT
An international team of researchers has found that goldenrod can detect a compound produced by gall-inducing flies (Eurosta solidaginis). [See related image Here.] More about this image Tall goldenrod (Solidago ...
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05/29/2018 01:00 AM EDT
An international team of researchers has found that goldenrod can detect a compound produced by gall-inducing flies (Eurosta solidaginis). [See related image Here.] More about this image Tall goldenrod (Solidago ...
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05/29/2018 01:00 AM EDT
From an evolutionary perspective, prey animals like this 12-hour-old snowshoe hare, born into an environment fraught with danger, benefit if they are born wary and fearful, so they are automatically hiding, even though they have never seen a predator before. More about this image If a ...
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