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…
Terahertz waves are becoming ever more important in science and technology. They enable us to unravel the properties of future materials, test the quality of…
The next round of the stepwise expansion of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) at Greifswald is in full swing….
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“This discovery means that we now have a pathway to build quantum computers using single-atom spins without the need for any oscillating magnetic field for…
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“One could say that this planet gets rainy in the evening, except it rains iron,” says David Ehrenreich, a professor at the University of Geneva in…
Dr Ivan Valerievich Borzenets, Assistant Professor at CityU's Department of Physics, collaborated with scientists from Germany, Japan, and Korea on achieving…
To observe molecules, one has to use sensitive tools. Such measurements would be important for determining the concentration of minute particles in blood…
The condensed-matter physics world was shaken up when high-temperature superconductivity was reported in a copper oxide material in 1986 by Alex Müller and…
The single-cell organism, known as slime mold (Physarum polycephalum), builds complex filamentary networks in search of food, finding near-optimal pathways to…
Quantum technology has the potential to enable revolutionary technological applications. However, conventional computers lack the power to calculate the…
Today, there is a great effort to scale down magnetic memory towards nanometer-sized bits in order to ultimately store information in a single magnetic atom….
Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made a promising new advance for the lab's high-speed “electron camera”…
While quantum physics is usually concerned with the basic building blocks of light and matter, for some time scientists have now been trying to investigate the…
Physicists have unraveled a mystery behind the strange behavior of electrons in a ferromagnet, a finding that could eventually help develop high temperature…
With the ever-increasing volumes of digital data from the growing numbers of devices, the demand for data storage capacity has been enhanced dramatically over…
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