This dazzling green lizard is a Chinese water dragon, so named because the species lives around the rivers and streams that run through its jungle habitat. When threatened, they will often evade a ...

Measure and monitor HHMI’s institutional greenhouse gas emissions at the two campuses we operate and look for strategies on greenhouse gas reduction at both campuses. Harness the tremendous community ...

Blebbing occurs when a call’s plasma membrane separates from its cytoskeleton and forms a membrane bulge filled with cytoplasm. This bulge will eventually separate from the cell, taking part of the ...

Can you imagine living your life with a nose like the one on this rosette-nosed chameleon? While scientists aren’t sure why it evolved this unusual structure, many distinctive ornaments like this are ...

The little green dots in this image are particles of a coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes the disease COVID-19. These viral particles (also known as virions) are on the surface of ...

This veiled chameleon is getting ready to score its next meal. These lizards have a ballistic tongue that can shoot out the length of their entire body or more. Get a closer view of the image Get a ...

What am I looking at? This image is a 1.5-millimeter-thick horizontal slice through the brain of a mouse. It shows the neurons that produce serotonin in purple (1) and pyramidal neurons in green (2).

This “blossom” is made of overlapping images of a growth plate from the bone of a two-week-old mouse. This “blossom” is made of overlapping images of a growth plate from the bone of a two-week-old ...

This bean-shaped structure in hues of purple, red, and green is a sympathetic ganglion from a newborn mouse. Sympathetic ganglia are chains of neurons up and down the spine that help initiate the ...

Most animals, including humans, start out as a ball of undifferentiated stem cells. Stem cells are cells that have the potential to transform into many different cell types. As development progresses, ...

This landscape of blue, red, and gold is a cross section through a developing human bone. Human bones have a hard outer layer made of condensed bone and a softer inner core of spongy bone. This ...

Zooming in on everyday structures gives us a unique perspective. This is an image of the overlapping scales on a zebrafish. Most fish are covered with scales that are part of their skin. Scales ...