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…
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…
Dr Richard Watson at the University’s School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), has been awarded one of the first ever IEEE Intelligent Systems’ ‘10 to…
The result is a database with hierarchical data consisting of 1896 concepts related to cancer and 4033 words in Spanish, English, and German. According to the…
Hadrontherapy is one of the most refined radiotherapic technique for tumours treatment. It uses hadrons, that is to say charged particles made up from quarks,…
Today, British astronomers are releasing the first data from the largest and most sensitive survey of the heavens in infrared light to the ESO user community….
Called “digital magnetofluidics,” it promises more rapid, more accurate and less costly analyses of water and biological fluids – blood, urine, saliva – that…
The unusually simple containment method may enable easier experiments on single molecule dynamics and perhaps lead to the development of molecule-sorting…
The novel nanostructure, which may have applications in areas such as in biomedical imaging where LED brightness is crucial, is described in the July 17 issue…
In a paper for Physical Review Letters,* they explain how the amount of force applied while mixing carbon nanotube suspensions influences the way the tiny…
Researchers at Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) have unveiled the “nanoegg,” the latest addition to their family ultrasmall,…
UKIDSS will make an atlas of large areas of the sky in the deep infrared. This survey will reveal more cool and faint objects than we have ever been able to…
Physicist Costas Soukoulis and his research group at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory on the Iowa State University campus are having the time of…
Reproducing this effect in computer graphics has always been a challenge. Computers can create three-dimensional structures resembling hair, but the process of…
New data on young galaxies is already challenging current thinking on galaxy formation, revealing galaxies that are massive at a much earlier stage of…
Though security applications that verify a person’s identity based on their physical attributes, such as fingerprint readers or iris scanners, have been in use…
Sheffield Hallam University has just taken ownership of a state-of-the-art mother and baby simulator to give student midwives practical experience of birthing…
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