ESA's Planetary Defence team The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the naming of ten asteroids – and one comet – after people and places linked to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) efforts to protect…
Predatory bacteria: The new ‘living’ antibiotic
Antibiotic resistance is one of medicine’s most pressing problems. Now, a team from Korea is tackling this in a unique way: using bacteria to fight bacteria. [caption id="attachment_11758" align="alignnone" width="2448"] Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria.Creditt…
Enormous swarms of midges teach about interconnected landscapes
[caption id="attachment_11753" align="alignnone" width="775"] David Hoekman, a former postdoctoral researcher at UW–Madison, now an assistant professor at Southern Nazarene University, in a midge swarm in May 2008. PHOTO: CLAUDIO GRATTON[/caption] Swarms of midges rise out…
Identification of Molecular Origins Underlying the Interfacial Slip
A new study, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), has discovered the fundamental principles of handling polymers. [caption id="attachment_11749" align="alignnone" width="725"] The schematic description of the main molecular mechanisms…
Noctis Labyrinthus stereo pair
[caption id="attachment_11743" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO[/caption] ExoMars was launched on a Proton-M rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on 14 March 2016. Around seven months later, it arrived at Mars. As part of…