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 invention is a micro-laser component with effectivity and low production costs that is particularly suitable for application in communication technology…
The invention is a nano-scale optical filter for pre-determined extraction of certain wavelength areas from a light beam.
In particular, the filter can be…
Up to now, computer education has focused on teaching children and young adults the basics of how to use personal computers. Typically, pupils learned how to…
With the project due to end in January 2007, TEL-ME-MOR is well on the way to achieving its objectives. Content from eight out of the ten newly included…
“Zeolites” might be an unknown word to many non-scientists, but its meaning is everywhere around us: when we wash our clothes, drive a car or walk in the…
Chavdarian and Sumner have studied cracks and fins in the sulfate-rich sands at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. These features look remarkably…
It has been an established fact for several years now that water exists on Mars. However, the big question is how much of it – if any – is in liquid form. The…
For many years astronomers have been trying to understand the similarities between stellar-mass sized Galactic black hole systems and the supermassive black…
If the seawalls at The Hague and Ter Heijde are breached and the fast-flowing seawater floods the polder land behind the dikes, there will be more than 4,000…
The new method analyzes publicly available histories of transactions posted by online auction sites such as eBay and identifies suspicious online behaviors and…
For many years astronomers have been trying to understand the similarities between stellar-mass sized Galactic black hole systems and the supermassive black…
Using VIMOS on ESO's Very Large Telescope, a team of French and Italian astronomers have shown the strong influence the environment exerts on the way galaxies…
The magnetic field generated inside the Earth protects the planet from the electrically charged particles given out by the Sun. However, it is only a partially…
Physicist at the Universities of Bath, Bristol and Leeds have discovered a way to precisely control the pattern of magnetic fields in thin magnetic films,…
Ray Charles was really good at snapping, said musical acoustician Kenneth Lindsay of Southern Oregon University in Ashland. Charles's snaps that open “It Don't…
MIRAVI, short for MERIS Images RApid VIsualisation, tracks Envisat around the globe, generates images from the raw data collected by Envisat’s optical…
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