Images Dated 6th February 2004

Way up on the high scaffolding of the new Bankside power station

Way up on the high scaffolding of the new Bankside power station, which is towering over the tiny house in which Christopher Wren lived, the spider men are building the hugh chimney and station for the new power supply.
Bankside power station opened in 1952 and closed in the late 1980s. The building was later transformed and is now the home of the Tate Modern. Our Picture shows two of the erectors pause in their work to get a light for their pipe and cigarette.
London
St Pauls Cathedral
Construction Workers
Builders
Steel Work
Building Site
Skyline
Smoking
December 1951
©Mirrorpix
LAFRSSMAR05 0803

© Mirrorpix

Visualisation of quark structure of neutron

Quark structure of the neutron. Computer visualisation of the structure of the neutron, one of the building blocks of atomic nuclei. The three objects seen here are quarks, held together by the strong nuclear force. This force is mediated by the exchange of virtual gluons which form a quantum cloud around the quarks. The colours here represent the quark "flavour"; the proton is made of two "down" quarks (pink) and one "up" quark (green). These quarks have electric charges of -1/3 and +2/3 respectively, so the neutron has no net electric charge (is electrically neutral)

© ARSCIMED/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY