Picturing access to energy for all in sub-Saharan Africa

The U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) aims to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable…

Detection of spike-like structures near the front of a shock-driven solar radio burst

Type II solar radio bursts are the result of energetic electrons accelerated by a shock. This…

The highest-energy gamma rays discovered by the Tibet ASgamma experiment

The Tibet ASgamma experiment, a China-Japan joint research project, has discovered the highest energy cosmic gamma…

Satellite radio map

Technology image of the week: This mesh-based model helps engineers working on Meteosat Third Generation, showing…

Samsung faces deceptive advertising charges in France over ethics pledge: NGOs

The French subsidiary of Samsung Electronics is facing charges of deceptive marketing over its corporate ethics…

Total starts production at French biofuel refinery

Total on Wednesday said it had begun producing biofuel at a refinery in southern France, a…

A total solar eclipse just passed over Chile and Argentina

On 2 July, the moon blocked out the sun over areas of Chile and Argentina in…

Remembering Apollo 11: What to Watch and Listen To

As the 50th anniversary of the moon landing approaches, these movies, television shows and podcasts help…

It's not an antibody, it's a frankenbody: A new tool for live-cell imaging

Antibodies are the biomolecules our immune systems deploy to find, tag and destroy invading pathogens. They…

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano

Italian ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano completed his first mission to the International Space Station in 2013.…