Monitoring

Drought in Africa in 2006: areas with abundant vegetation are shown in green, areas with less healthy and thriving vegetation are brown. Photo: NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of Jennifer Small, NASA GIMMS Group at Goddard Space Flight Center

Why does NASA follow cows?

Rigoberto Advincula

Sensors for detecting explosives and monitoring food products

Prof. Lawrence Marnett, right, and his colleagues, Prof. Jashim Uddin, right, Prof. David Piston and Brenda Crews, research a compound that causes tumors to glow. Photography: Joe Howell

Luminescent compounds for the detection of cancerous tumors

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Tsunami, huge water

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Keep an eye on the pigs!