New research from scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School shows that fruit flies are secretly harboring the biochemistry needed to glow in the dark —otherwise known as bioluminescence.

This is a confocal laser scanning microcope image of an early embryo with surrounding placental endosperm cells. A new generation of high yield plants could be created following a fundamental change in our understanding of how plants develop.

Stunning images of a 305-million-year-old harvestman fossil reveal ancestors of the modern-day arachnids had two sets of eyes rather than one.