1995 Gallery

Springbok captain Francois Pienaar receives the Webb Ellis Cup from President Nelson Mandela - 1995 Rugby World Cup Final

Rugby Union - 1995 World Cup Final - South Africa 15 New Zealand 12
Springbok captain Francois Pienaar receives the Webb Ellis Cup from South Africa President Nelson Mandela at Ellis Park, Johannesburg.
24/06/1995

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Simulation of Higgs boson production

Simulated detection of Higgs boson. Computer simulation of an event in which the decay of a Higgs boson particle produces four muons. Two of these muons are seen here (green tracks). The muons, along with countless other particles (red and blue tracks), are produced in a head-on collision between two protons. The Higgs boson is a localised clustering in the Higgs Field. This field permeates space, and local distortions of the Higgs Field are thought to be the way that particles gain mass. This image shows how the Higgs boson might be seen in the CMS detector on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory

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MRSA resistant Staphylococcus bacteria

MRSA: resistant Staphylococcus bacteria. Coloured transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a deadly cluster of MRSA Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. Strains of MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylo- coccus aureus) bacteria are resistant to most antibiotic drug agents; some yield to vancomycin. It is a Gram-positive spherical (coccus) bacteria. Here, some bacteria are seen dividing. MRSA is common in hospitals, infecting wounds of patients. S.aureus may cause boils, usually by entering the skin through a hair follicle or a cut. They are also responsible for internal abscesses and most types of acute suppurative infection. Magnification: x24, 000 at 6x4.5cm size

© DR KARI LOUNATMAA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY