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…
With the present invention an oscillating columnar sensor will be enclosed in such a manner that fluid will not touch its generated surface, but a meniscus…
Research shows that computerised speech aids, although very helpful, can restrict the development of a child's language skills, as his or her speech tends to…
Developed by ‘bremen online services’ (bos) and showcased at recent trials in Germany, Italy and the UK, the CERTISERV platform is designed to handle a wide…
At the core of the €2.5m MOSAICA project is a new type of search engine that understands semantics and the meaning of whole phrases, rather than just looking…
AMIE obtained this sequence on 18 March 2006 from a distance of 591 kilometres from the surface, with a ground resolution of 53 metres per pixel. The imaged…
By way of example: every week, more than one thousand new papers reach the database of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN in French), in…
“Nature gave us this fantastic opportunity to see hypothesized dark matter separated from ordinary matter in this merging system,” said UA Steward Observatory…
The spiral shape is a telltale sign of a binary system, which means that it is two lighter-weight stars in orbit around each other, rather than one. Although…
The nature of the stars was not entirely clear until now. In a paper published in the Aug. 18 issue of Science, co-authors Peter Tuthill of the University of…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have imaged some of the galaxy's oldest and dimmest stars, offering a rare experimental glimpse of two mysterious…
“Unlike water, which speeds up as it passes through a small nozzle, photons of light have less momentum at the center of a focused laser beam,” says Kurt…
Astronomers have finally learned the identity of a mysterious “Quintuplet Cluster” of stars situated near the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's core: At…
Dare to be Digital, hailed as the best ‘proving ground for the interactive entertainment sector’, held its 2006 Awards Ceremony at the University of Abertay…
Scientists responsible for the D-CIXS instrument on SMART-1 are also announcing that they have detected aluminium, magnesium and silicon. “We have good maps of…
Astronomers have identified two fundamental transitions in the physics of stars related to age that may help further refine the Milky Way's age. The results…
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the team took hundreds of high-resolution photos and compared the images pixel-by-pixel to identify the dimmest stars in…
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