Janelia scientists are learning how animals adjust their physical exertion as changes in the environment or their own bodies alter how efficiently they move.

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This is the head and upper thorax of a thistle mantis (Blepharopsis mendica). You can see its characteristic striped eyes (1), its antennae (2), its large claw-like front legs (3), and the top section ...

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The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet announced this morning that the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Jack W. Szostak, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...

Take a visual journey through some of the major concepts in biology. These pathways to discovery were created by educators to help users explore various biological concepts. We would like to extend a ...

This is the embryo of a veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) that’s been stained to visualize its developing skeleton. Its bones are red (1), the cartilage is blue (2), and some of its developing ...

Janelia group leader Eric Betzig wins Nobel Prize for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.