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TGF-beta1 Antibodies Effectively Halt Osteoarthritis in Mice
When placed in the bone (green) beneath the cartilage (red) of a rat's knee joint, antibodies against the protein TGF-beta1 can prevent the damage caused by osteoarthritis. Left, without treatment; ...

Contact: Catherine Kolf
ckolf@jhmi.edu
443-440-1929
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Seasonal Suffering
Heat-related fatalities are projected rise steeply in Manhattan due to warming climate. This man rode a subway car during an August 2006 heat wave.

Contact: Kevin Krajick
kkrajick@ei.columbia.edu
212-854-9729
The Earth Institute at Columbia University

Dr. Mingqi Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences
This is Dr. Mingqi Li sampling one of the pebble tools for ancient starch using an ultrasonic bath, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences in ...

Contact: Dr. Huw Barton
hjb15@le.ac.uk
01-162-522-793
University of Leicester

Xincun Site
This shows the Xincun site under excavation, a) Neolithic living surface under cleaning.

Contact: Dr. Huw Barton
hjb15@le.ac.uk
01-162-522-793
University of Leicester

Map
This is a map of the study region in southern China (A), Xincun site indicated by red triangle (B), and details of the Xincun site including excavation areas marked by red grids, stippling shows ...

Contact: Dr. Huw Barton
hjb15@le.ac.uk
01-162-522-793
University of Leicester

Scanning Electron Micrograph of Cytos' Virus-Like Particle
VLPs resemble viruses; they mimic the structure of real viruses but are non-infectious because they do not contain any viral genetic material, hence safe to be injected into humans.

Contact: Dr. Sarah Chang
chang_kai_chen@a-star.edu.sg
65-682-66442
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

Sunda Shelf During the Last Ice Age and Now
The exposed Sunda Shelf during glacial times greatly affected the atmospheric circulation. The shelf is shown on the left for present-day as the light-blue submerged areas between Java, Sumatra, ...

Contact: Gisela Speidel
gspeidel@hawaii.edu
808-956-9252
University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST

Collision Showing Collective Flow Behavior
This is a three-dimensional view of a proton-lead collision that produced collective flow behavior. The green lines are the trajectories of the sub-atomic particles produced by the collision ...

Contact: David Salisbury
david.salisbury@vanderbilt.edu
615-343-6803
Vanderbilt University

GOES Sees Alvin
NOAA's GOES-15 satellite captured this infrared view of Tropical Storm Alvin on May 16 at 1200 UTC (8 a.m. EDT) as it continued moving west and away from Mexico.

Contact: Rob Gutro
robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

AIRS Sees Alvin
NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Tropical Storm Alvin just as it reached tropical storm status on May 15 at 2047 UTC (4:47 p.m. EDT). The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument captured an ...

Contact: Rob Gutro
robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center