Young stars ejecting plasma could give us clues into the Sun’s past Kyoto, Japan — Down here on Earth we don’t usually notice, but the Sun is frequently ejecting huge masses of plasma into space. These are called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). They often occur together with sudden brightenings called flares, and sometimes extend far enough to disturb Earth’s magnetosphere, generating space weather phenomena including auroras or geomagnetic storms, and even damaging power grids on occasion. Scientists believe that when…
An artificial, laser-fed star now shines regularly over the sky of Paranal, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope, one of the world's most advanced large…
Much like the conveyor belt in a production plant, NPL’s electron surf machine delivers electrons one by one in a reliable steady stream at a rate of more than…
The agreement calls for more competition to be introduced so that the system can be procured quickly for rapid deployment of Galileo by 2012. This means that…
Scientists of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen identified a new source of adult somatic stem cells, the spermatogonial stem cells (SSC). These cells…
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Scientists at the University of Münster, Germany, have isolated and characterized a novel substance class from Cocoa. CocoaHeal is capable of…
They have used microtechnology to study individual cell divisions as their environment changes. Based on observations of a great many cells, the researchers…
Then imagine that galaxy encountering its identical twin. The first galaxy merges with the second to produce a galaxy that's even grander and greater….
Key distribution—the problem of ensuring that both the sender and receiver of an encrypted message (and no one else) share the same long string of random…
As reported in a recent paper,* the device is a type of “non-volatile” memory, meaning stored information is not lost when the device is without power….
With the Inteleos UI, pharmaceutical and biotech professionals will be able to compare and contrast information from multiple data sources – both internal and…
Today, researchers at CNRS have taken another step forward on the road leading to this ultimate goal. They have revealed the metallic nature of a class of…
To observe the motion of an electron – an elementary particle with a mass that is one billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a gram – has been considered…
Water damage to asphalt is a major expense. It also results in an increase in traffic delays because roads often have to be closed during repair work. This…
The BRASIL (Broadband to Rural America over Satellite Integrated Links) project, whose motto, 'Broadband any Place via Space', reflects its mission to harness…
The IT University of Copenhagen each year identifies exceptional research which both contributes new knowledge and specifies how the new insight can be used….
A lesion of a close-to-the-shoulder artery has been found thanks to a CT scan or multislice computed tomography, finally clarifying the world-famous glacier…
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