New Tumor-Suppressor Gene Discovered
The eye of a fly into whose genes the researchers inserted both a mats gene and a wts gene, whose protein products join structurally at the molecular level to form a larger, more powerful protein complex.
Ultra-Cold Temperature Physics Opens Way to Understanding and Applications
David S. Weiss
Secret to Longevity in Tubeworms
Close-up photograph of the base of an aggregation of the symbiotic vestimentiferan tubeworm Lamellibrachia luymesi from a cold seep at 550 m depth in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Ian MacDonald, Texas A&M University
Scientists Discover How Climate Change Causes the Simultaneous Boom or Bust of Multiple Populations
credit: Peter J. Hudson, Penn State
Scientists Announce Smallest Extra-Solar Planet Yet Discovered and Find Outer Limits of the Pulsar Planetary System
All photos courtesy of the NAIC - Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF.
Swift Sees Pinwheel Galaxy, Satellite Fully Operational
This UVOT image of the pinwheel galaxy M101 is a 'false-color' image generated with the near-UV, the blue, and yellow filters, represented by blue, green, and red, respectively. This image shows more light from the central regions of the galaxy, where older, cooler stars dominate the emission.
Novel Sulfide-Binding Mechanism Found in Deep-Sea Tubeworms
This is an image of a group of the giant hydrothermal vent tubeworm, Riftia pachyptila, taken around 2500 m at 9ºN along the East Pacific Rise (Pacific Ocean).
Swift Mission Images the Birth of a Black Hole
Penn State scientists, David Burrows (left) and John Nousek, reacting to the launch they have just viewed from the beach at their hotel in Cocoa Beach, The smoke trail from Swift's launch is still visible in the sky behind them.
Clusters of Aluminum Atoms Found to Have Properties of Other Elements Reveal a New Form of Chemistry
Artist's rendition of an aluminum-iodine "Superatom" identified by the Castleman group at Penn State and the Khanna group at Virginia Commonwealth University. Credit: D.E. Bergeron, P.J. Roach, A.W. Castleman, N.O. Jones, and S.N. Khanna
Spying on Black-Hole Eating Habits with LISA
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