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 authors’ basic premise lies in the reduction of costs on obtaining energy en route and in its more rational use. In other words, the scientists have not…
Provided you know in which direction to look, spotting the ISS with the naked eye is not as difficult as it might seem. Although the ISS travels at a speed of…
During his PhD research, Jorden van Dam focused on semiconductor nanowires. These are extremely thin wires (1-100 nanometers thick) made of, for example, the…
Pamela, (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics) will stay in Space for at least three years, on a quasi-polar elliptic orbit…
A meeting was held on 24 February at the Nowgen centre in Manchester to discuss the formation of a steering group to oversee the running of the project and…
The project will demonstrate how HPC clusters can support complex engineering calculations such as geometry changes to aircraft features and aeroengine…
The HRSC obtained these images during orbit 987 with a ground resolution of approximately 11.1 metres per pixel. The images show part of Apollinaris Patera, a…
Each Raman peak corresponds to a specific vibration and provides information (even on heterogeneous materials) such as the phases nature, distribution,…
The scientific team trained their telescopes on Supernova 2003gd, which exploded in the NGC 628 spiral galaxy 30 million light-years from Earth. The light from…
The Southern constellation Tucana (the Toucan) is probably best known as the home of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the satellite galaxies of the Milky…
Super-Earths have masses that range between those of Earth and Neptune but have unknown compositions. “Of the 300 stars closest to the Sun, at least 230 are…
They report in Science Express that Type II supernovae – where a massive star comes to the end of its life and releases its cataclysmic energy – are the…
A novel human TNF-responsible neutral phingomyelinase enzyme (nSMase3) has been identified. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of nSMase3 as…
The Canadian Coast Guard has selected the Canadian company Telesat to provide ship to shore communications via satellite. This represents the second commercial phase for the highly successful ESA supported project Marine eCommerce Applications.
Marine eCommerce Applications (MeCA) proved its capabilities in 2005, when Telesat began offering internet services to passengers aboard Canadian ferries. The new agreement with the Canadian government calls for Telesat to provide satellit
With the countdown well and truly under way to the biggest sporting extravaganza on the planet, a European research initiative is hoping the 2006 World Cup will kick-start its own plans to bring cross-media content closer to the consumer.
The INCCOM project is taking advantage of the huge interest in this summer’s soccer finals in Germany to introduce consumers to new ways of enjoying football using the latest mobile communication technologies.
“It’s the perfect opportu
A USC Information Sciences Institute system pulls answers from online conversations by identifying the alpha chatterers.
The system, to be presented at a conference on human language technology on June 6, was developed to analyze technical conversations in which an objectively correct answer exists. But the method for statistically characterizing response by the group to individuals is generalizable.
Online communities are now firmly established in domains ranging fro
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