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 work is reported in the Sept. 15 issue of Physical Review Letters, the journal of the American Physical Society. Carbon nanotubes — cylindrical carbon…
Applications could include homeland security (e.g., surveillance of radio traffic for anomalous signals, or high-resolution digital imaging radar on unmanned…
The new study shows that the supernova remnant RCW 86 is much younger than previously thought. As such, the formation of the remnant appears to coincide with a…
The IST-sponsored project 3DTV is at the forefront of European efforts to bring the promise of three-dimensional moving images closer to reality. Made up of a…
Embryonic photosynthesis leads to the production of seed-internal oxygen that is important for seed development and quality. In order to visualize…
„For the first time we are able to set up such a short-wave emitting laser”, says MBI-scientist Dr. Peter Viktor Nickles. The new X-ray laser at MBI will be…
The cloud may be the clue needed in solving a puzzle that has confounded scientists who so far have seen little evidence of a veil of ethane clouds and surface…
The new specimen was found by a field party from the U.S. Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET) headquartered at Case Western Reserve University….
The Kondo effect occurs when electrons become trapped around the magnetic impurities in semiconductor materials, which prompts the electrons to change their…
They also hope to be able to use the two pulsars to determine the exact nature of the matter that pulsars and other neutron stars are made of.Their results are…
FING-ART-PRINT, a 2.5-year project funded by the European Commission, undertaken by a consortium of European partners, aims to provide a means of uniquely…
By Christina B. WingeThe technology that archaeologists and ICT researchers have recently adopted is called “structured light”. It is a method that quickly and…
“We have created and analyzed the code in the spirit of helping to guide public officials so that they can make wise decisions about how to secure elections,”…
The dwarf planet formerly known as 2003 UB313 received the official designation (136199) Eris, or Eris in short, from the International Astronomical Union on…
Product miniaturisation is fast reaching the level where tiny, intelligent devices can be embedded into virtually any part of our environment. This is the era…
The system has been developed by researchers from the University's Division of Primary Care in collaboration with Health Protection Agency surveillance…
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