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only has research shown that they protect sensitive corals from the threat of rising temperatures and ocean acidification, they’ ...
DESERTS Empty. Endless. Lifeless. That’s what springs to mind when you hear the word ‘desert’. But there’s more to deserts than ...
Just 166mm of precipitation falls on Antarctica each year, which means it’s classified as a desert ...
he icy moons of the outer Solar System are attracting more and more attention from planetary scientists. Decades of studies have ...
Pacific Rise. They found natural chimneys belching black smoke into the ocean, which they nicknamed black smokers. Known more fo ...
EUROPA Parent planet: Jupiter Orbital period: 3.551 days Radius: 0.245 Earth radii Mass: 0.008 Earth mass Planetary Habitability ...
Europa is covered with cracks and streaks, but there don’t appear to be many impact craters “It would be difficult to go to Euro ...
Enceladus, however, nature has gifted us a way of analysing the ocean just by f lying past the world. This is because there are ...
“Enceladus is almost certainly habitable – we just don’t know whether it’s inhabited” David Rothery, The Open University Jonatha ...
An aerial view of the surface of Titan, captured by ESA’s Huygens lander in 2005. Data sent back by the Cassini-Huygens mission ...
“It’s very hard to ‘cook up’ biochemistry in the lab. It’s probably easier just to go to these places and look” Jonathan Lunine, ...
I T ’ S A SMALL WORLD SINCE 1975, THE ANNUAL NIKON SMALL WORLD COMPETITION HAS CELEBRATED THE ART AND SCIENCE OF PHOTOMICROGRAPH ...
¶ GRUB’S UP Mites on an insect pupa, 20x These beady-eyed little critters tucking into their dinner are mites. The meal and the ...
BLUE RIBBANDS GLOW RED ́ Blue-green cyanobacteria showing auto fluorescence, 400x This image shows string-like cells of a blue-g ...
BAND OF CODE ́ Numerical traces on a Blu-ray disc, 100x High magnification disguises a familiar object in this abstract artwork. ...
PLANTS RELEASE THE SPORESμ Spore capsule of a moss, magnification unspecified Behold the biological storage solution of a Bryum ...
STICKY FINGERS ¶ Tentacles of the Drosera, 20x It might look harmless, but this leaf could mean a rather sticky end for an unfor ...
LEAF MANDALA ́ Sorus fern, 20x This colourful fan is a sorus, a structure found on the underside of fern leaves. Each panel in t ...
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anuary 2016 marks 30 years since the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The orbiter had represented a brave attempt by NASA t ...
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