These are the muscles inside the head of the larva of a green lacewing. These larvae are known and prized by gardeners due to their voracious appetite for aphids and other soft-bodied plant pests. The ...

The Marburg virus causes Marburg virus disease (MVD) and is related to the more widely known Ebola virus. The average mortality rate of this disease in humans is about 50%, meaning that about half of ...

This caterpillar, looking for all the world as if it’s holding a yoga position, will eventually turn into a lobster moth. When threatened, these caterpillars strike this pose to make themselves look ...

What am I looking at? These images show a single cell in the middle dividing into two so-called daughter cells. The stage of the cell division process represented here is called anaphase. In these ...

Chameleons are lizards that can change their skin color. The multicolored scales in this image are attached to the skin of an embryonic chameleon. Chameleons change color to communicate with other ...

In this zebrafish liver, the blood vessels glitter in gold and the bile ducts gleam in neon blue. This image highlights the close relationship between the circulatory system and the cells of the liver ...

This looks like a “little purple pill” but is actually a fruit fly embryo undergoing a wave of cell division, traveling from one end of the embryo to the other. Look closely and try to guess which ...

This neon marvel highlights the muscles of a developing aquatic invertebrate known as a moss animal, also known as a bryozoan – a member of the phylum Bryozoa. The organism gets its common name from ...

HHMI has selected 24 schools in the first round of the Inclusive Excellence initiative, a program that aims to help increase the capacity of colleges and universities to effectively engage all ...

Beauty is all around us. It is everywhere our eyes can see – in the breathtaking majesty of snowcapped mountains, in the tranquil shores of tropical beaches, and in the faces of those we love. But ...

These are known as HeLa cells because they were originally isolated from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. She went to Johns Hopkins Medical Center in 1951 and was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She ...

Baker, of the University of Washington School of Medicine, was among three scientists honored by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his work on computational protein design. He shares the 2024 ...