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…
The prestigious journal, “Physical Review Letters”, one of the most important in the field of physics, has published three articles that summarise the findings…
The inventive solar cell is based on the “third generation solar cells” concept. Due to the special structure of the composite the properties absorption and…
The agreement will strengthen cooperation and ensure that the research community has access to improved services, such as increased network bandwidth. The move…
The updated gallery – open on 26 April and to be called Exploring Space – will celebrate our exploration of space so far and investigate the benefits it brings…
The Aurora Fellowship scheme is a new Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) fellowship dedicated to enhancing the UK’s long term capabilities…
Set up in March 2006 in Brussels, the Space Dialogue initiative encompasses space applications (satellite navigation, Earth observation and satellite…
Hinode, Japanese for 'sunrise', was launched on 23 September 2006 to study the sun's magnetic field and how its explosive energy propagates through the…
Atkins, with more than 16,000 employees, is one of the UK's top 100 companies. The company specialises in engineering consultancy and has, over the last 30…
Three activities are proposed: one focussing on the health workforce (scaling-up numbers, improving performance, increasing quality); a second on clinical…
The software is publicly available and can be adapted for use by any state, said Christopher Holloman, associate director of the Statistical Consulting Service…
Researchers have made an important advance in the emerging field of 'spintronics' that may one day usher in a new generation of smaller, smarter, faster…
The purpose of the research, which involves teams from the universities of Kent and Warwick, Imperial College London and University College London, is to…
This previously unknown globular cluster, detected with the aid of the European Southern Observatory’s New Technology Telescope at La Silla, Chile, is about…
Some 40 years after the release of the classic science fiction movie Fantastic Voyage, researchers in the NanoRobotics Laboratory of École Polytechnique de…
The detection limits of trace analysis with a previous SPME-enrichment step can be improved by a factor of four to five thanks to the new inventive process.Further Information: …
The scientists from Liverpool John Moores University and colleagues in the UK, Italy, France and Slovenia used the Liverpool Telescope on the island of La…
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