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Pinned Specimen
Calbug participants can help digitize labels such as the one accompanying this pinned specimen.

Contact: Sarah Yang
scyang@berkeley.edu
510-643-7741
University of California - Berkeley

Darwin Bug
Citizen scientists will transcribe labels similar to the one above, which shows a ground beetle from Tierra del Fuego, Chile, that was collected in 1833 by Charles Darwin.

Contact: Sarah Yang
scyang@berkeley.edu
510-643-7741
University of California - Berkeley

Solar Flare
New research led by a Johns Hopkins mathematical physicist focuses on the "misbehavior" of magnetic fields in solar flares. In this image, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured an X1.2 class ...

Contact: Phil Sneiderman
prs@jhu.edu
443-287-9960
Johns Hopkins University

Gregory Eyink, Johns Hopkins University
Gregory Eyink, professor of applied mathematics and statistics at Johns Hopkins.

Contact: Phil Sneiderman
prs@jhu.edu
443-287-9960
Johns Hopkins University

Ferritin is Fused with the Influenza Protein Hemagglutinin
When ferritin (gray) is fused with the influenza protein hemagglutinin (blue), it self-assembles into a sphere with eight protruding spikes from its surface.

Contact: NIAID Office of Communications
niaidnews@niaid.nih.gov
301-402-1663
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Transparent Electrode Material
These electron microscope images show a new material for transparent electrodes that might find uses in solar cells, flexible displays for computers and consumer electronics, and future "...

Contact: Emil Venere
venere@purdue.edu
765-494-4709
Purdue University

Malaria Oocyst
This is a micrograph of a mature oocyst of a malaria parasite.

Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
aem1@psu.edu
814-865-9481
Penn State

Malaria Sporozoites
This is a micrograph of malaria sporozoites being released from a mosquito salivary gland.

Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
aem1@psu.edu
814-865-9481
Penn State

Top 10 New Species 2013
The top 10 new species list was announced May 23 by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University. The 2013 list includes an amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a ...

Contact: Sandra Leander
sandra.leander@asu.edu
480-965-9865
Arizona State University

Relative Size and Completeness of 2 of the Small Ornithopod Specimens
Skeletal outlines illustrate both the relative size and completeness of two of the small ornithopod specimens described in the paper. Bones indicated in white are present. Human (in gray) for scale.

Contact: Cody Mooneyhan
cmooneyhan@faseb.org
301-634-7104
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology