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July 1, 2015
Working towards a European open science cloud

Last week, CERN hosted an event to discuss ongoing efforts to develop a ‘European open science cloud’. The aim of this work is to bring public research organizations and e‐infrastructures together with commercial cloud-computing suppliers to build a common platform offering a range of services to Europe’s research communities.

January 15, 2014
Mapping the stars — Gaia's big data challenge

Video courtesy ESA.

July 10, 2013
View from above: a planet brimming with data

Last month, the European Space Agency in Frascati, Italy, played host to an event titled ‘Big data from space’. Wolfgang Lengert, manager of two separate Earth-observation satellite missions at ESA, gives iSGTW his take on the event…

 

April 3, 2013
Planck findings throw new light on Big Bang theory

The Planck’s space telescope's ability to measure tiny fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background may lead scientists to rethink theories of how the universe began and how it is evolving. Learn more about the cosmic microwave background and the surprises it revealed.

September 19, 2012
Up, up, and away

On 17 September, the MetOp-B satellite was successfully launched into orbit. The data transmitted by this and other European satellites will help build a better picture of severe weather and the climate.

August 15, 2012
Postcards from Mars – but how did they get here?
Image courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. 

April 25, 2012
Gamma rays, gravity waves, and galactic GPS

The Einstein@Home volunteer computing project has enabled the public to discover 27 new stars. When someone finds a new pulsar, not only do they enter the history books, they also get a personal email or even a signed-for-letter from project leader Bruce Allen.

March 7, 2012
A big cloud for big science

Helix Nebula - the Science Cloud is a new European collaboration to provide computing platforms to propel science. As a result, research should be faster and cheaper to perform, such as setting up an earthquake analysis system in a day instead of a month or simpler analysis of large genomes from mammals.