For centuries, scientists have known that plants "breathe" through microscopic pores on their leaves called stomata. These ...

This first video is about Tungsten Disulfide (WS2), a transition metal dichalcogenides which forms 2D sheets similar to graphene. These sheets are held together loosely via Van der Waals forces. This ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on Earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

Scientists have created a new way to watch plants breathe—live and in high definition—while tracking exactly how much carbon ...

Microscopic view of the drone’s brain (purple): The neurons belonging to the Fru circuit, which is involved in the animals’ begging behaviour, are marked in green. (Image: HHU/Institute of ...

Encouraged by these results, Dudin, Dey, Guichard, and Hamel launched a close collaboration. Three years later, their work has produced near-encyclopedic insight into hundreds of protist species and ...

Growing up in a remote area of Peru, chemical biologist and National Geographic Explorer Rosa Vásquez Espinoza relied on water as a mode of transportation. She and her family traversed the Amazon ...

This story appears in the May 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. It has been updated with new research. At this moment, hundreds or thousands of tiny eight-legged animals are nestled deep in ...