The John C. Sullenger Vineyard at Nickel & Nickel Winery, Napa Valley, Calif. Nickel & Nickel collaborated with scientists to collect wine samples and identify the bacteria and fungi in them by sequencing microbial DNA. Jason Tinacci/Courtesy of Nickel & Nickel hide caption
A marine biologist is engulfed by a school of barracuda and jacks as she conducts reef surveys in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. Tane Sinclair-Taylor/Nature Publishing Group hide caption
Eight months pregnant, Mara Torres stands next to a mosquito net placed over her bed in Cali, Colombia. Health officials in Cali have delivered mosquito nets to pregnant women to help protect them from the bites of mosquitoes that can transmit dengue, chikungunya or Zika. Luis Robayo /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The meteorite is 3.1 by 2.6 by 0.8 inches large. It is surrounded by a gray reduction halo, in the otherwise red limestone. Oxygen was consumed when the meteorite weathered on the seafloor. The coin in the image has a diameter of just under 1 inch. Nature Communications hide caption
Russia's Maria Sharapova appealed a two-year suspension for taking the banned drug meldonium. William West/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Primary regions of diversity of major agricultural crops worldwide. The Royal Society hide caption
Tough thumbs but weak hands? Millennials use technology in their workplaces more than their counterparts in 1985. Joy Sharon Yi/NPR hide caption
Jim Allison in his lab at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Scott Dalton for NPR hide caption
Kosuke Morita, who led a group of researchers that discovered element 113, speaks at a press conference at in Tokyo on June 9. The name nihonium stems from the fact that element 113 was discovered in Japan, and Nihon is one way to say the country's name in Japanese. Eugene Hoshiko/AP hide caption
Luis Alberto de la Rosa says he sells lots of misoprostol, a drug used in abortions and in ulcer treatment, to women from Texas who come to his Miramar Pharmacy in Nuevo Progreso, Mexico. John Burnett/NPR hide caption
Among the hominin fossils found at the Mata Menge site on the Indonesian island of Flores was part of a lower jaw. Kinez Riza/Nature hide caption
The EHang 184 autonomous aerial vehicle is unveiled at the EHang booth at CES International in January in Las Vegas. The drone is large enough to fit a human passenger. John Locher/AP hide caption
Genetically modified mosquitoes are released in Piracicaba, Brazil, in an effort to combat Zika virus. These mosquitoes were modified using conventional techniques. Victor Moriyama/Getty Images hide caption
Beyonce inked a $50 million endorsement deal with Pepsi in 2012. Walter McBride/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
Milo Lorentzen is 5 years old, and is one of only three people in the world known to have a mutation in a gene called KDM1A. Courtesy of Karen Park hide caption
Sgt. Jessie Bacon uses the Tactical Communications and Protective System to relay information to his squad in Fort Bliss, Texas. About 20,000 of the devices have been deployed so far. Sgt. Betty Boomer/U.S. Army hide caption
When you've got it, flaunt it: Beards can occur in various chicken breeds. The birds in the middle have them; the ones on the far left and right don't. Courtesy of Ying Guo hide caption
Cyrtophora citricola, a type of orb-weaving spider, live in big colonies. So males potentially have a large pool of females from which to choose a mate. Buschwerk/Flickr hide caption
