"Simulated Arrakihs mock image of a galaxy halo". Credit: Alex Camazón (IEEC), AMC The European Space Agency (ESA) has formally adopted its Arrakihs mission, a project designed to study faint galaxy haloes and uncover the…
Snowbound Italy
[caption id="attachment_14634" align="alignnone" width="681"] Credit contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018), processed by ESA[/caption] Italy is usually associated with relatively warm weather, but this week it, too, has fallen victim to the cold snap nicknamed…
Saturn’s greatest storm
[caption id="attachment_14631" align="alignnone" width="631"] Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI[/caption] Saturn’s storm are sights to behold. Unlike other planets in the Solar System, the ringed planet seems to store up huge amounts of energy over multiple Earth decades and…
Virus’s Path through the Body Depends on Infection…
A person is more likely to get infected by HIV through anal intercourse than vaginal, but no one knows quite why. A new study by scientists at the Gladstone Institutes shows that infection sites could…
ESA incubators ranked among world’s best
[caption id="attachment_14624" align="alignright" width="305"] Kristina Öhman and Jens Lundström[/caption] Two ESA business incubators have been ranked fourth and seventh in the world classification of university-affiliated incubators evaluated in 53 countries. Sweden’s Uppsala Innovation Centre was…