ESA ministers commit to biggest ever budget

ESA Press Release No.22-2019 ESA’s Council at Ministerial Level, Space19+, has concluded in Seville, Spain, with…

Space is key to monitoring ocean acidification

This week, the UN World Meteorological Organization announced that concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere…

The changing chemistry of our oceans

As carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere, increasing amounts of carbon are entering the world’s…

120 university students take part in the Concurrent Engineering Challenge 2019!

Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus was the target of ESA Academy’s Concurrent Engineering Challenge 2019. Would participants be able…

Animals could help humans monitor oceans

Sharks, penguins, turtles and other seagoing species could help humans monitor the oceans by transmitting oceanographic…

Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast 27 November 2019

Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast 27 November 2019 Click here for…

Ostrich eggshell beads reveal 10,000 years of cultural interaction across Africa

Researchers present an expanded analysis of African ostrich eggshell beads, testing the hypothesis that larger beads…

Humans co-evolved with immune-related diseases — and it's still happening

Some of the same mutations allowing humans to fend off deadly infections also make us more…

Laboratory-evolved bacteria switch to consuming CO2 for growth

Over the course of several months, researchers created Escherichia coli strains that consume CO2 for energy…

Inbreeding and population/demographic shifts could have led to Neanderthal extinction

Small populations, inbreeding, and random demographic fluctuations could have been enough to cause Neanderthal extinction, according…