Europe lofts first Copernicus environmental satellite
The ability of European citizens, policymakers and service providers to access key environmental data on a routine basis will take a major step forward following the launch of ESA’s Sentinel-1A satellite.
The sky is the limit? Europe’s aviation market takes off

Flight movements across Europe.
NASA's OCO-2 Brings Sharp Focus on Global Carbon

This animation shows the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, the first NASA spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon...
NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Scoping Out Next Study Area

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recorded this view of various rock types at waypoint called "the Kimberley" shortly after...
Structural Insights into the Inner Workings of a Viral Nanomachine

Captured rotavirus double-layered particles (DLPs) in the midst of producing RNA. The schematic represents an EM Affinity Grid (gray square...
Tiny Biomolecular Tweezers Facilitate Study of Mechanical Force Effects on Cells and Proteins

Conceptual design of MAP-nDEP tweezers. a) Schematic of chip layout: Circu-lar magnetic nickel pads (blue) were flanked by interdigitated...
Nanosheets and nanowires

This is a typical TEM image of as-prepared GeS nanowires with the inset showing a selected area electron diffraction pattern taken from GeS...
Carbon nanotubes grow in combustion flames

This is a carbon nanotube growth.