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…
New research done by Henrik Svensmark at the Danish National Space Center shows that data from microscopic fossil seashells can be used to define important…
The award recognises both the speed with which the mission was put together and the unprecedented study it is making of Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour….
In an experiment at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), located near Geneva, the scientists have demonstrated that a beam of antiprotons can…
COROT is expected to greatly enlarge the number of known exoplanets during its two-year mission and provide the first detection of rocky planets, perhaps just…
Marin Soljacic of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will present research by himself and his colleagues Aristeidis Karalis and John Joannopoulos on the…
Dr Mark Birkin and colleagues, who are developing the model at the University of Leeds, will be demonstrating its potential at the UK e-Science stand at SC06,…
Academics from the School of Computer Science and School of Psychological Sciences have developed a virtual reality system, which gives the illusion that a…
Australia's scientific research agency, CSIRO has 'built' a shirt which could fulfil the fantasy of anyone who has, in the privacy of their homes, jammed along…
The group is offering to put logos, photos, messages and other images on its new Earth-orbiting research spacecraft which will be launched into orbit in 2010. …
The structure which consists in particular of hydrogen, fluorine, carbon and copper, has been realized in an entirely novel, three-dimensional and very stable…
At the same time, the team also established a speed record of 25 femtoseconds for flash imaging. The new method will be applicable to atomic-resolution imaging…
Speaking at an AVS session commemorating Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday, physicist Lawrence Schein will explain how Franklin's pioneering studies on…
You're far from home, feeling sick and scared. You’re on holiday and vulnerable and you need medical attention immediately. What do you do?If the CASCOM…
Eclipse is an open development platform and application framework for building software. VTT's first contribution to the Eclipse community is a tool designed…
Now in its fifth year, the competition offers students the chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime trip to ESO's flagship observatory in Chile, as well as many…
Combining x-ray reflection together with high resolution x-ray microscopy, scientists can now study interactions at the nanometer-scale which often can exhibit…
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