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…
This research illustrates the rapid progress that is currently being made by real-time nano-microscopy. Within 5 years this research area should be able to…
In a collaborative investigation performed by an experimental team and a theoretical physics team, the group discovered that measured fluctuations in the…
Within the cochlea of the inner ear, sound waves cause the basilar membrane to vibrate. These vibrations stimulate hair cells, which then trigger nerve…
The ability to delay an entire image and retrieve it intact opens a new avenue in optical buffering—short-term storage of information as optical images. While…
Virus diseases of plants cannot be treated in a curative way, the best strategy to construct and obtain healthy plants is to establish a virus resistant…
The physiological role of natural products with isoquinoline or naphthalene skeletal frameworks served as a model for three compound classes, for which for the…
Natural compounds with naphthalene or biphenyl substructures and interesting, pharmaceutically useful properties (e.g. naphthyl isoquinolines) have often been…
Several isoquinoline alkaloids with interesting, pharmaceutically useful properties have recently been isolated from marine as well as terrestrial organisms….
Particle size reduction currently receives rapidly growing attention from all industry sectors since it allows to derive interesting material properties from…
Ground crystalline molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) has reliably proven itself as a universal and inert solid lubricant. Its lubricity could lately be outperformed by…
In work that could lead to completely new devices, systems and applications in computing and telecommunications, MIT researchers are bringing the long-sought…
A pilot test of the system, which uses radio frequency technology to tag and identify people and equipment, was so successful at the National Geospatial…
As a first step in this process, NIST is looking for comments on its recently published draft minimum acceptability requirements, submission requirements and…
Top academic teams from Durham, Oxford, Leicester and London have been selected to be the first users of one of the brightest sources of light in the world…
Quantum theories are often considered to apply best to processes that happen on the smallest scale of atoms and molecules. By making artificial atoms larger —…
The advance is the result of investigative work done at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), and at the…
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