CryoSat unveils secrets of the deep
Applications CryoSat unveils secrets of the deep 03/10/2014 12721 views 111 likes ESA’s ice mission has been used to create a new gravity map, exposing thousands of previously uncha...
CryoSat extends its reach on the Arctic
Applications CryoSat extends its reach on the Arctic 15/12/2014 8057 views 67 likes CryoSat has delivered this year’s map of autumn sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, revealing a smal...
Crossing the boundary from high to low on Mars
On the boundary between the heavily cratered southern highlands and the smooth northern lowlands of Mars is an area rich in features sculpted by water and ice. Cydonia Mensae is a re...
Comet close-ups
Science & Exploration Comet close-ups 22/01/2015 68778 views High-resolution images from ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft reveal an incredible array of surface features on the comet
Closer and closer
Science & Exploration Closer and closer 24/07/2014 47938 views Postcards from space as Rosetta draws closer to its destination comet
Best of Blue Dot
This image gallery features the best images taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst during his Blue Dot mission as chosen by his followers on Facebook. Alexander spent six months on t...
Beagle-2 lander found on Mars
Science & Exploration Beagle-2 lander found on Mars 16/01/2015 81377 views 278 likes The UK-led Beagle-2 Mars lander, which hitched a ride on ESA’s Mars Express mission and was ...
ATV-5 liftoff: full replay
Liftoff of an Ariane 5 launcher from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana with ESA’s last Automated Transfer vehicle to the Space Station. The fifth and final mission of ESA’s Automat...
Ariane 5’s second launch of 2015
Directv-15, with a mass of about 6200 kg and mounted in the upper position atop Ariane’s Sylda dual-payload carrier, was the first to be released about 28 minutes into the mission. S...
50 years of spacewalks
Taking a hair-raising decision, he opened a valve on the suit to let enough air escape for him to enter the airlock. His spacewalk lasted only 12 minutes but proved that astronauts c...
Tail as old as time—researchers trace ankylosaur’s tail evolution
Credit: Sydney Mohr How did the ankylosaur get its tail club? These weaponized ankylosaurids lived about 66 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period. In order for an ankylosa...
Supercomputers enlisted to shed light on photosynthesis
Researchers at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country are using high-performance computing to simulate the processes that take place during the first moments of photosynthesis ...
Study reveals human body has gone through four stages of evolution
SH-selected postcranial traits. Credit: PNAS, doi/10.1073/pnas.1514828112 Research into 430,000-year-old fossils collected in northern Spain found that the evolution of the human bo...
Seeing quantum motion; even one day ripples in the fabric of space-time?
But we know that even at the quantum ground state, at zero-temperature, very small amplitude fluctuations–or noise–remain. Because this quantum motion, or noise, is theoretically an ...
Scientists ‘squeeze’ light one particle at a time: Scientists have measured a bizarre effect in quantum physics, in which individual particles of light are said to have been ‘squeezed’
A team of scientists has successfully measured particles of light being squeezed, in an experiment that had been written off in physics textbooks as impossible to observe. This invol...
Quantum diffraction at a breath of nothing
Quantum diffraction at a breath of nothing by Staff Writers Vienna, Austria (SPX) Aug 27, 2015 Modern fabrication methods allow to make atomically thin nanomasks which prove...
Quantum computer that ‘computes without running’ sets efficiency record
(a) The pulse sequences for the generalized CFC scheme keep the system in its ‘off’ state. So far, however, the efficiency of this process, which is called counterfactual computation...
Pigments, organelles persist in fossil feathers
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – A study provides multiple lines of new evidence that pigments and the microbodies that produce them can remain evident in a dinosaur fossil. The...
Photos: Primordial Sea Scorpion Was a Top Predator
During the Ordovician period, these creatures likely scuttled along the seafloor as juveniles, but grew up to be top predators swimming around the ocean. (Image credit...
New theory leads to ‘radiationless revolution’: Physicists have found a radical new way confine electromagnetic energy without it leaking away, akin to throwing a pebble into a pond with no splash
Physicists have found a radical new way confine electromagnetic energy without it leaking away, akin to throwing a pebble into a pond with no splash. However, it appears to contradic...
New fossil skulls reveal insights about penguin brain evolution
This Eocene Antarctic fossil penguin skull was discovered at La Meseta Formation at Seymour Island. Penguins are unique among modern birds in that they ‘fly’ through the water. The A...
Giant ‘sea scorpion’ fossil discovered
The fossil of a previously unknown species of ‘sea scorpion’, measuring over 1.5 meters long, has been discovered in Iowa, USA, and described in the open-access journal BMC Evolution...
Fossil specimen reveals a new species of ancient river dolphin
The team named it Isthminia panamensis. Today there are only four species of river dolphins – all living in freshwater or coastal ecosystems and all endangered, including the Chinese...
Evidence of ancient life discovered in mantle rocks deep below the seafloor
Scientist found mummified microbial life in rocks from a seafloor hydrothermal system that was active more than 100 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous when the supercontin...
Discoveries in Spanish cave suggest Neanderthals had hot water and bedrooms
The finding adds to the mounting evidence that Neanderthals were a lot more sophisticated than previously thought and were at least as advanced, if not more so, than early Homo sapie...