living organisms
Revealing the ocean's hidden fertilizer
An essential nutrient for every living organism–humans require approximately 700 milligrams per day–we're rarely concerned about consuming enough because it…
No gold without microbes
All the Earth’s gold deposits should actually be in the Earth’s core – buried deep out of mankind’s reach. After all, this metal has such a high density that…
Precocious GEM: Shape-shifting sensor can report conditions from deep in the body
Scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have devised and demonstrated a…
Engineer, physicist to turn the inner workings of living cells into 'molecular movies'
What happens when a chemical engineer and a physicist walk into a bar? They forge a collaboration that could change biological imaging.
New technique captures real-time diagnostic 3-D images
This research, recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, makes it possible to follow the development of living organisms up to three millimetres…
Cattle with missing cervical vertebra – scientists elucidate phenomenon of evolutionary biology relevance
Cattle breeders had been puzzled. For some time they had observed calves with shortened tails in some Holstein cattle herds. Some calves developed normal;…