Photolab

Technological skin

Shark's skin feels smooth if you run your hand from head to tail, but rough in reverse

Biological engineering

Lab-made vascular cells actively produce a coagulation factor

Until archaeology do us part

After death, a man and woman in Lapa do Santo, Minas Gerais State, remained together for more than 8,000 years

Underwater nursery

The Okenia polycerelloides sea slug reproduces in the pantry

A landscape in an egg

A group led by paleontologist Sérgio Alex Azevedo, from the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, was able to identify the fossil by analyzing its microstructure

Inside the vines

The dyed stem cross-sections in the images show the stiffer and the more flexible parts of forest vines

Laboratory brain

Biologist Caroline Brandão Teles has been studying the relationship between schizophrenia and defects in neural cells known as oligodendrocytes—which she has been attempting to create from stem cells

The aesthetics of imperfection

A large electric voltage bias is used to spin ultrafine nanometric fibers into membranes that can filter water

Niobium in bloom

"Flowers" bloom inside a device that works like a pressure cooker at a University of São Paulo Chemistry Institute laboratory

Medicinal necklaces

Crnkovic studied microalgae in fresh water as part of her PhD research, which involved bioprospecting for compounds that could help fight cancer

Rare white cougar captured on camera

Hidden cameras in the Serra dos Órgãos National Park in Rio de Janeiro captured rare photographs of a cougar with a white coat—known to biologists as leucism

Microscopic giants

In samples collected off the coast of Rio de Janeiro and from saline lakes in the Pantanal, virologist identified giant viruses with the longest tails ever recorded

A perfect fit

Frogs are very particular when choosing the flowers in which they will spend their whole lives

Splendor at the highest heights

High in the Itatiaia mountains in Rio de Janeiro, more than 2,000 meters above sea level, the brightly colored flowers of the Buddleja speciosissima demand attention

Magnetic circles

LED light strips, a cylindrical magnet, and a thin film of ferrofluid is the recipe for the diffraction effect in which the colored lights form circles

Pre-Columbian Culture

Fragments of ceramic figures indicate that at the time there was a cultural connection between peoples across South America

Dispersal by water

The piraputanga is pictured snagging a wild fig

A different type of DNA

Some parts of the DNA may actually be formed of three spiraled strands

Brazil’s National Museum in Quinta da Boa Vista

Brazil’s National Museum in Quinta da Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro September 3, 2018

Aquatic Forest

Loxopholis ferreirai is endemic to the Amazon rainforest

Dispersal by water

Biologist José Sabino studies the role fish play in maintaining riparian forest ecosystems

A natural battleground

The yellow fungus is found in about 60 other species

Laser faucet

System simulates how light travels through the icy clouds of interstellar media

Diamonds in the sky

Tin oxide nanoparticles congregate in a cohesive circle, taking on the appearance of a volcan

Rainforest selfies

The beauty of knowledge through images

An (almost) invisible neighborhood

The beauty of knowledge through images

This is not a fried egg

Flowers and leaves

Flowers and leaves

Lethal bouquets

A different type of DNA

A different type of DNA