Research Collection (page 100)

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, artwork C016 / 6389
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Artwork of the TGO (Trace Gas Orbiter) under development by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)

ExoMars TGO spacecraft at Mars, artwork C016 / 6391
ExoMars TGO spacecraft at Mars, artwork. The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is under development by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)

Mars landscape, artwork C016 / 6322
Mars landscape. Artwork of a rocky landscape in the Gale Crater on Mars. This crater was caused by an asteroid impact millions of years ago

Surface colours of a Soap Bubble C016 / 6364
Soap bubble colours. The movement in the thin film is due to the interaction between gravity and buoyancy in the liquid. The colours are produced by the interference of light waves reflected from

New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto, artwork C016 / 6381
New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto, artwork. New Horizons launched from Earth on 19 January 2006 and will take 9 years to reach Pluto, arriving mid-2015

Chromosomes, light micrograph C016 / 6354
Chromosomes, light micrograph. This micrograph was obtained in 1934 during studies of chromosome structure in the salivary glands of Sciara (a genus of fungus gnats)

Surface colours of a Soap Bubble C016 / 6366
Soap bubble colours. The movement in the thin film is due to the interaction between gravity and buoyancy in the liquid. The colours are produced by the interference of light waves reflected from

Surface colours of a Soap Bubble C016 / 6361
Soap bubble colours. The movement in the thin film is due to the interaction between gravity and buoyancy in the liquid. The colours are produced by the interference of light waves reflected from

Curiosity rover on Mars, artwork C016 / 6380
Curiosity rover on Mars. Artwork of NASAs Curiosity rover in a rocky landscape in the Gale Crater on Mars. This crater was caused by an asteroid impact millions of years ago

Sputnik 3 in orbit, 1958 C016 / 6374
Sputnik 3 in orbit, artwork. This small unmanned conical spacecraft carried scientific instruments to study the upper atmosphere, cosmic rays, and the Earths magnetic field

Bird flu research C015 / 8803
Bird flu research. Researcher harvesting influenza type a H7N9 viruses from cultures grown in eggs. This virus first emerged in the human population in China, in March 2013

Housefly C015 / 9927
Housefly (Musca domestica). This fly feeds on organic material, including decomposing matter, and carries numerous diseases which it can spread to human food

Bird flu diagnostic kit C015 / 8805
Bird flu diagnostic kit. Reagents for diagnosing influenza type a H7N9 infection in humans. This virus first emerged in the human population in China, in March 2013

Bird flu research C015 / 8804
Bird flu research. Researcher measuring harvested influenza type a H7N9 viruses grown in the lab. This virus first emerged in the human population in China, in March 2013

Maggot waste digestion food production C015 / 9937
Maggot waste digestion food production. Close-up of numerous maggots of the housefly (Musca domestica) being used in waste digestion and food production research

Vat colour dye research, 1940s C018 / 0657
Vat colour dye research. Industrial chemist working on vat colour dyes in a laboratory at a factory. Vat colours are fast dyeing agents, and are used on cotton, viscose process rayon and linen

Rayon research, 1950s C018 / 0661
Rayon research. Close-up of an industrial chemist drawing out filaments of rayon from a test tube. Rayon is a polymer fabric that can be produced in a number of ways

Mouse, illustration C018 / 0739
Mouse (Mus musculus), illustration. Mice are widely used as laboratory animals because of their close genetic and physiological similarities to humans

Teflon research, 1940s C018 / 0646
Teflon research. Laboratory technician testing a piece of Teflon (polytetrafluoroethylene, PTFE), a DuPont industrial plastic

Rayon production research, 1950s C018 / 0659
Rayon production research. Industrial chemists using an ultraviolet photometer (left) to detect and analyse the amount of carbon disulphide present during the production of rayon

Nylon toothbrush research, 1930s C018 / 0677
Nylon toothbrush research. Laboratory assistant Edward Burke working on early designs of toothbrushes using nylon bristles. Nylon was a new material discovered by the DuPont Company in 1935

Gel electrophoresis, illustration C018 / 0736
Gel electrophoresis, illustration. Gel electrophoresis is a technique used to analyse the molecular composition of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) samples

Discovery of nylon, 1941 re-enactment C018 / 0675
Discovery of nylon, 1941 re-enactment. DuPont chemist Julian Hill (1904-1996) carrying out a re-enactment in 1941 of the discovery of nylon in 1935

Teflon research, 1940s C018 / 0647
Teflon research. Laboratory technician carrying out a test to compare Teflon with another plastic. She has dipped rods of the two plastics in a boiling bath of hot sulphuric acid

Dissected mouse, illustration C018 / 0781
Dissected mouse (Mus musculus), illustration

Rayon research, 1950s C018 / 0655
Rayon research. Laboratory researcher testing viscosity in the viscose process used in the manufacture of rayon. Liquid viscose, under carefully controlled temperature

Cellular polarity, illustration C018 / 0775
Cellular Polarity. Conceptual illustration of cell polarity research and its medical implications

Early nylon research, 1940s C018 / 0676
Early nylon research. DuPont research chemist working with nylon 6-6, the original nylon polymer discovered in 1935. First synthesized in February 1935, this new polymer was later commercialised

Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor, 1950s C018 / 0625
Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor (PRTR), aerial photograph. This site was part of the Hanford Engineer Works (or Hanford Site), on the Columbia River, in Washington state, USA

Wallace Carothers, US chemist C018 / 0621
Wallace Hume Carothers (1896-1937), US industrial chemist, handling a sample of neoprene. Carothers studied at the University of Illinois, receiving his doctorate in 1924

DuPont research, 1950s C018 / 0678
DuPont research. Industrial research chemist watching an organic reaction. The program of fundamental research in organic chemistry at DuPont began in 1927

Mars Viking orbiter, artwork C017 / 0764
Mars Viking orbiter. Computer artwork showing a Viking space probe in orbit around the planet Mars. The Viking program consisted of a pair of US space probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2, sent to Mars

Citrus greening disease research C018 / 6323
Citrus greening disease research. Scientists performing a genetic (DNA) analysis of populations of psyllid insects collected in North and South America

MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury, artwork C017 / 7337
MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury, computer artwork. MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) is a robotic NASA spacecraft orbiting the planet Mercury

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, artwork C017 / 7230
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Computer artwork of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in orbit over the Earth. This space observatory was formerly known as the Gamma-ray Large Area Space

International Space Station, artwork C018 / 3555
International Space Station (ISS), artwork. The ISS, built in stages since 1998, is a collaborative project between the national space agencies of the USA, Canada, Japan, Russia and Europe

SV40 virus capsid, molecular model. Simian virus 40 (SV40) is found in monkeys such as Rhesus monkeys and macaques. Potentially tumour-causing, it is used in laboratory research and in vaccines

Culture in Petri dish, illustration C018 / 0898
Microbial culture in a Petri dish, illustration

Draper observing the Great Comet of 1881 C017 / 6824
Draper observing the Great Comet of 1881. 19th-century artwork of US physician and amateur astronomer Henry Draper (1837-1882) observing and taking photographic records of the Great Comet of 1881

Genetic microarray preparation C019 / 0277
Genetic microarray preparation. Analyst holding a prepared gene chip or microarray, to which samples of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) have been added

Genetic karyotype analysis C019 / 0270
MODEL RELEASED. Genetic karyotype analysis. Analyst in a genetics laboratory studying the results after DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) was isolated from a sample

Genetic karyotype analysis C019 / 0271
Genetic karyotype analysis. Analyst in a genetics laboratory studying the results after DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) was isolated from a sample

Genetic analysis, pre-PCR pipetting C019 / 0299
Genetic analysis. Automated pipetting being carried out at a pre-PCR (pre-polymerase chain reaction) workstation in a genetics laboratory

Genetic analysis, hybridization oven C019 / 0275
MODEL RELEASED. Genetic analysis. Analyst placing gene chips or microarrays in a hybridization oven. Gene microarrays are used with automated equipment to investigate

Genetic analysis, DNA isolation C019 / 0259
Genetic analysis. Automated nucleic acid purification machine being used to purify and isolate DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) from blood samples. This is an Autopure LS machine from the Qiagen company

Genetic analysis, pre-PCR workstation C019 / 0294
MODEL RELEASED. Genetic analysis. Analyst in a genetics laboratory preparing samples at a pre-PCR (pre-polymerase chain reaction) workstation

Genetic analysis, DNA isolation C019 / 0264
MODEL RELEASED. Genetic analysis. Analyst using a nucleic acid purification machine to purify and isolate DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) from blood samples

Genetic analysis, sample preparation C019 / 0263
MODEL RELEASED. Genetic analysis. Analyst in a genetics laboratory preparing blood samples before isolating DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)

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