Ny Alesund, the most northerly settlement in the world, a base for international scientists, Svalbard, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) research plane landing at the Chilean Research base Frei on King George Island, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Views of Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva, Antarctica, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions

CERN, Wandering the Immeasurable, steel structure, Globe of Science and Innovation in background, Geneva, Switzerland

View of Moon From International Space Station

STS-131, International Space Station, 2010

Elements Experiment, International Space Station

Prof M Samii is a man of medical superlatives, an international authority on neurosurgery, he has taken part in more than 20.000 operations. In July 2000, with the inauguration of the International Neuroscience Institute (INI) in a unique building in the shape of a brain Madjid Samii

Prof M Samii is a man of medical superlatives, an international authority on neurosurgery, he has taken part in more than 20.000 operations. In July 2000, with the inauguration of the International Neuroscience Institute (INI) in a unique building in the shape of a brain Madjid Samii

Science and Technology Museum, Computer, dome, science museum, exhibition, research, Century Square, Science Park

Science and Technology Museum, high voltage bowl, dome, science museum, exhibition, research, Century Square, Science Park

Science and Technology Museum, high voltage bowl, dome, science museum, exhibition, research, Century Square, Science Park

Labour court, science park (Wissenschaftspark) Rheinelbe, IBA International Building Fair Emscherpark, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Labour court, science park (Wissenschaftspark) Rheinelbe, IBA International Building Fair Emscherpark, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Labour court, science park (Wissenschaftspark) Rheinelbe, IBA International Building Fair Emscherpark, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Labour court, science park (Wissenschaftspark) Rheinelbe, IBA International Building Fair Emscherpark, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

International flags, European space center, Kourou, French Guiana, South America

Tara Oceans Expeditions - May 2011. Tara with deployed plancton nets. On "station", the boat is drifting without engine or sails. Tara Oceans, a unique expedition: Tara Oceans is the very first attempt to make a global study of marine plankton, a form of sea life that includes organisms as small as viruses and bacterias, and as big as medusas. Our goal is to better understand planktonic ecosystems by exploring the countless species, learning about interactions among them and with their environment. Marine plankton is the only ecosystem that is almost continuous over the surface of the Earth. Studying plankton is like taking the pulse of our planet. Recently, scientists have discovered the great importance of plankton for the climate: populations of plankton are affected very rapidly by variations in climate. But in turn they can influence the climate by modifying the absorption of carbon. In a context of rapid physico-chemical changes, for example the acidification observed today in the world's oceans, it is urgent to understand and predict the evolution of these particular ecosystems. Finally, plankton is an astonishing way of going back in time ? a prime source of fossils. Over the eons, plankton has created several hundred meters of sediment on the ocean floors. This allows us to go back in time, to the first oceans on Earth, and better understand the history of our biosphere. More than 12 fields of research are involved in the project, which will bring together an international team of oceanographers, ecologists, biologists, geneticists, and physicists from prestigious laboratories headed by Eric Karsenti of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Galapagos

International Space Station passing by the moon.

Congestion of waiting transport ships off the coast of Singapore, during the post-covid international shipping crisis.