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…
Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a theory that predicts how these materials age. The theory also explains why motions at the molecular…
“The improvement with STEREO's 3D view is like going from a regular X-ray to a 3D CAT scan in the medical field,” said Dr. Michael Kaiser, STEREO Project…
Flight trials are regularly conducted to demonstrate the new possibilities offered by the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), which has…
'By adopting today's Declaration, we seek to ensure that, in the future, electronic health services for Europe's citizens do not stop at national borders,'…
Each of the four VERITAS cameras created by Iowa State researchers contains 500 photon detectors that can see particle showers created by gamma rays hitting…
In a paper to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Applied Physics Letters, Wake Forest researchers describe how they have achieved record…
Black holes are not quite the all-consuming monsters depicted in popular culture. Until gas crosses the boundary of the black hole known as the event horizon,…
A group from the University of Bristol and the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has developed a sophisticated computer model to work out the…
Try as they might, ancient alchemists could never turn lead into gold. Neither can the members of the Novel Materials group at the U.S. Department of Energy’s…
“This method allows us to directly and precisely measure the phase shifts that result when ultracold atoms collide, in a way that is independent of the…
In a talk on Thursday 19 April at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, Dr Youra Taroyan and Professor Robert von…
An international research project has begun that could help bring to mass-market organic light emitting devices (OLEDs), which could have far reaching…
The contribution of inner layers is crucial, and this has serious implications when it particularly comes to fabricating electronic devices such as transistors…
With crewmember and Swedish ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang as their host, the crew passed through Stockholm and Gothenburg in Sweden, as well as the Danish…
The article, “Assessing Exposure to Airborne Nanomaterials: Current Abilities and Future Requirements,” written by Andrew Maynard, chief science advisor at the…
They are doing this by developing their own software tools which harnesses the power of computer games technology to give planners and builders the ability to…
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