Images Dated 4th September 2003

2003 FIA World Rally Champs. Round Ten Telstra Rally Australia 4th-7th September 2003

2003 FIA World Rally Champs. Round Ten Telstra Rally Australia 4th-7th September 2003.
Freddy Loix, Hyundai, Action.
World Copyright: McKlein/LAT

Grid computer farm

Grid supercomputers. Fish-eye lens view of a room packed with supercomputers, forming a "PC farm" with immense processing power. These computers are at CERN, the European Particle Physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. They are being prepared to accept and analyse data from the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC will smash particles together in an effort to find their constituents, and will generate millions of gigabytes of data. This is also being used as a test run for The Grid, a network of computers that can share processing power. This means that a standard desktop computer connected to The Grid can be used to perform powerful calculations

© DAVID PARKER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

False-colour SEM of a papilla vallata

Papilla vallata on tongue's surface. False-colour scanning electron micrograph of a papilla vallata (brown), a site of taste buds, partly surrounded by filiform papillae (bottom). Taste buds are not visible here but they lie below the surface and in the surrounding cavity of the papillae vallate. The taste buds situated on the papillae vallate are sensitive to the bitter taste. There are about 9000 taste buds which are mostly distributed on the tongue's surface. Papillae vallate are 1 to 2mm in diameter and are arranged in a v-shaped pattern at the tongue's root. Magnification: x123 at 6x6cm size

© PROFESSORS P.M. MOTTA, K.R. PORTER & P.M. ANDREWS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY