Life Sciences

North Atlantic right whale mother and calf as seen from a research drone called a hexacopter

Tooth epithelium (cell surface; yellow) and mesenchyme (cell surface; magenta). Proliferating cells (cyan) expand the tissue, generating a mechanical pressure at the tissue center that drives the formation of the main tooth signaling center or organizer, the enamel knot.

The shell of the variable tonicia is covered in complex, image-forming eyes.

Yarumal, a municipality in the foothills of the Andes north of Medellín, is one of several communities in Colombia that host a large kindred with a genetic form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease

A soft summer evening in the Paleoproterozoic, as envisioned by DALL-E.

The sulfate poor waters of Lake Superior could provide insights on the biochemistry of Earth's early ocean.

This image of a blue plastic pile represents the cumulative amount of plastic waste that would be generated between 2010 and 2050 — enough to cover the entire island of Manhattan, and ten times the height of the Empire State Building — under a business-as-usual scenario where no aggressive policy actions are taken.