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Computer simulations show soap in a new light
31 August 2010
A team from Temple University uses the Lincoln supercomputer at the University of Illinois' National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to model surfactants. Surfactants are used in common household products like detergents and shampoo.... more
     
 
Branching morphogenesis
24 August 2010
Forget about staring at data on a computer screen; try walking through those statistics and touching them. With this illustration of the forces lung cells exert as they form capillaries, scientists and museum-goers can do just that. more
     
 
The heart as art
16 August 2010
The heart muscle of a Zebrafish has the remarkable ability to repair itself after injury. more
     
 
Spiral coil
6 August 2010
Salps are planktonic filter-feeders — each one a tireless vacuum continuously clearing phytoplankton cells from the sea by filtering water through a mucus net as it swims. more
     
 
Hair-like fibres of epoxy resin assemble around a polystyrene sphere
2 August 2010
Hair-like fibres stretch to latch onto a green sphere. Alone each fibre is powerless, but together they grip and support the orb, embodying co-operation at a microscopic scale. more
     
 
Cryptococcus neoformans giant cell
26 July 2010
Scanning electron microscopy image of a Cryptococcus neoformans giant cell isolated from the lung of an infected mouse. more
     
 
Microbe vs. mineral: a life and death struggle in the desert
19 July 2010
Although the bursts of rainbow colours in this photograph are mesmerising, microbes fight for their lives in the background. more
     
 
A light in the sky
12 July 2010
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa spacecraft streaked across the sky like a saber of light through the clouds as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Woomera Test Range in Australia on 13 June. In Kingoonya, the spacecraft’s... more
     
 
All-American salute
7 July 2010
Astronaut John W Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the United States flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity. more
     
 
The dark side of carbon
28 June 2010
As interest in Earth's changing climate heats up, a tiny dark particle is stepping into the limelight: black carbon. more
     
 
Lagoons of New Caledonia
22 June 2010
In 2008, UNESCO added the Lagoons of New Caledonia to the World Heritage Site list. The Lagoons comprise six marine clusters that represent the main diversity of coral reefs and associated ecosystems in the French Pacific Ocean archipelago of New... more
     
 
Glowing bacteria light up ocean
15 June 2010
This photo shows a petri dish swabbed with a culture of bioluminescent marine bacteria. The bacteria give off light using a process known as quorum sensing that is controlled by four small RNA molecules within each of them. more
     
 
Hyundai's giant vuvuzela
7 June 2010
In keeping with Hyundai’s “Bring the Gees” message, their agency The Jupiter Drawing Room has constructed this massive Vuvuzela on the unfinished bridge in Cape Town. Football Fever is here people! more
     
 
Reisman's self-portrait
31 May 2010
Nasa astronaut Garrett Reisman takes a self-portrait in his visor while participating in the first of three spacewalks scheduled for the Atlantis crew and their Expedition 23 hosts. more
     
 
Ring of fire: solar prominence taken from a 30 March 2010 eruption
24 May 2010
This new image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) shows in great detail a solar prominence taken from a 30 March 2010 eruption. The twisting motion of the material is the most noticeable feature. more
     
 
Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull Volcano in infrared
17 May 2010
On Saturday, 17 April 2010, the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) instrument aboard Nasa's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) spacecraft obtained this false-colour infrared image of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano. more
     
 
Separation of two spacecraft
10 May 2010
As the the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft and the International Space Station began their post-undocking relative separation, Expedition 23 flight... more
     
 
Another world: Dagze Co
4 May 2010
This other worldly landscape is actually Dagze Co, one of many inland lakes in Tibet. more
     
 
Cumulonimbus cloud over Africa
26 April 2010
High above the African continent, tall, dense cumulonimbus clouds, meaning 'column rain' in Latin, are the result of atmospheric instability. more
     
 
Sossusvlei in Namibia
19 April 2010
This image of Sossusvlei in Namibia was taken by South Africa’s Sumbandila Satellite, specifically, the main on-board payload, a F#4 linescan imager (refractive design) with 400 mm focal length, and resultant GSD of 6,25 m from an orbit height of... more
     
 
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