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Amazon Rainforest This photo was taken near the city of Manaus, Brazil, which is northeast of the Acre region discussed below.

View from an Iceberg Magnus Petersen and Dave Porter prepare to lower a temperature-depth-salinity sensor into a fjord near the village of Kullorsuaq, as part of a study into changing conditions where Greenland's melting glaciers meet the ocean.

Dromedary camels, which can carry MERS.

2,458 Cells Fernando Amat et al., "Fast, accurate reconstruction of cell lineages from large-scale fluorescence microscopy data," Nature Methods, 2014 What is this fuzzy creature? Sadly, it's not pettable.

American Concept Art Of Soviet Laser.

An Anaerobic Digestion Plant City of Lincoln, Nebraska One U.K.

Blanche in her workshop.

A desert woodrat Kevin Kohl, University of Utah Desert woodrats are picky, but not in the way you might expect: several woodrat populations in the U.S.

Illustrations by Jason Schneider If humans can indeed smell fear they wouldn’t be unusual in the animal kingdom.

Trapped! An illustration and two microscope images showing the pyramidal self-folding traps and round cells.

The Caribbean reef squid, in the pencil squid family.

Shocking! Photograph by Travis Rathbone When it comes to thunderheads, lightning is the great equalizer.

Illustrations by Jason Schneider Turns out, a few oral sunscreens already exist, based on the theory that antioxidants offer sun protection.

250,000,000 miles: how far away the Rosetta spacecraft is from Earth.

Cold Spring, New York.