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 is the background to the AMIRA IST project, which aimed to develop a more sophisticated version of the platform first seen in the IST project RIMSAT. The…
Founded in 2004, IXICO provides state of the art image analysis solutions for pre-clinical and clinical trials that are based on sophisticated computer…
This year, the trials, conducted in partnership with the race organiser – Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), took place over two of the tour’s stages: the…
If life is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you will get – the Universe, with its immensely large variety of galaxies, must be a real candy…
Scientists are convinced that some super-massive black holes must be hiding behind thick clouds of dust. These dusty shrouds allow only the highest energy…
Rather than comparing the mammogram image in question to every image of breast cancer in a computer database, the new approach compares the mammogram in…
The finding also substantially changes the understanding of chemistry in space.The question of why molecular nitrogen hasn't been detected in comets and…
It would appear that there are radars, land-based services and so on – why is it that aircraft and helicopters continue to crash, especially during take off…
When Huygens came to rest on the surface of Titan on 14 January 2005, it survived the impact and continued to transmit to the Cassini mothership, orbiting…
Joaquín Fernández, Chair at the Department of Applied Physics at the Bilbao School of Engineering, is leading the team consisting of Professor Rolindes Balda…
A second system is likely to have a belt of rocky bodies the size of Mars or smaller. The other two, the models show, do not have the proper conditions to form…
At the University of Pittsburgh, Ozhasoglu and approximately 30 colleagues form one of the largest US teams devoted to the CyberKnife, a radiation delivery…
The protocol and applications utilizing the protocol are developed in a project called Uni-Verse coordinated by KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology,…
Between 25 and 40 per cent of Europeans have no affordable, effective access to the 1s and 0s that constitute the ABCs of the rapidly emerging knowledge…
The Sentinel satellite series, which are being developed by ESA in support of the European Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme (GMES),…
Observations of superfluids may help solve lingering questions about high-temperature superconductivity, which has widespread applications for magnets, sensors…
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