While this group of colorful neurons was grown in a dish from stem cells, in the body neurons like this are responsible for sensing pain. There is a specialized subset of sensory neurons called ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder – but since the northern mole cricket spends most of its time underground, there aren’t many other creatures that get a look at this burrowing insect’s furry face ...

The tendrils that extend from so-called killer T cells like the one in this image help them latch onto and destroy infected or cancerous cells in the body. Learn more Get a closer view of the image ...

Pioneering research has shown that the immune system is quite good at fighting cancer if it knows what to look for. This image shows a patient’s immune cells (in red) attacking a cancer cell (in white ...

What am I looking at? This is a video showing a section of the cerebral cortex from a mouse. The video was taken by moving the focal plane of a microscope from the bottom of a thick section of brain ...

Can you make heads or tails of these two colorful beasties? They’re caterpillars of a kind of moth called a slug moth – so called because their legs are covered with suction cups, so they move like ...

This video of a so-called HeLa cell dividing demonstrates how sensitive the cell division process is. While all is going well at the beginning of the video, as the clip nears its end you can see the ...

Teamwork makes the dream work, even in nature. When different species work together for their mutual benefit, it is called symbiosis (or mutualism) — a process that is essential for the health of ...

The mechanics of insect flight are still a bit of a mystery to scientists. A fruit fly’s flight “motor” has 44 muscles and an intricate joint anatomy that’s a marvel of miniaturization. Making sense ...

This looks like a “little purple pill” but is actually a fruit fly embryo undergoing a wave of cell division, traveling from one end of the embryo to the other. Look closely and try to guess which ...

This hickory horned devil caterpillar is doing some acrobatics while eating the leaf of a tree. These caterpillars get their name from the bright red and black face and horns adorning the thoracic ...

This might be a quintessential face for radio by human standards. But for this whirligig beetle, its face – especially its mandibles (mouthparts) – is perfectly designed for hunting and scavenging.