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SMAP will produce global maps of soil moisture, which will help improve our understanding of Earth's water and carbon cycles and our ability to manage water resources.

Imaging of burns indicates that those treated with the FL2 inhibitor nanotechnology experienced collagen deposition and hair follicle formation. (2-photo confocal microscopy).

This sequence of images shows a blast zone where the sky crane from NASA's Curiosity rover mission hit the ground after setting the rover down in August 2012, and how that dark scar's appearance changed over the subsequent 30 months.

The Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft is seen as it launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 43's NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) onboard Friday, March 27 (Saturday, March 28 Kazakh time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

"Silicon-based compounds are the backbone of modern electronics processing," said Kristie Koski, assistant professor of chemistry at Brown, who led the work. "Silicon telluride is in that family of compounds, and we've shown a totally new method for using it to make layered, two-dimensional nanomaterials."

Compounds from green tea could boost the quality of biomedical imaging.

Nanotechnologies in Drug Delivery Congress organized by Markets and Markets Conferences is gathering industry experts from the nano-medicine market who will look at these developments and also present new ideas. Supported by the French Society for Nanomedicine, the congress will be held on 27 - 28 April 2015 in London, UK. Speaking at the congress will be AstraZeneca, Nemaura Pharma, Lloyds Register Quality Assurance, Cytoviva, World Nano Foundation, King's College London, Institute for Biological and Medical Imaging, Uppsala University and University of Oxford among others.

This image shows an attosecond emission steering with CEP phase.