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 joint research project of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that had previously demonstrated…
To this end, the scientists excited rare gas atoms with specially prepared laser pulses. Then they tracked the response of the atoms with a new measurement…
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A research team led by professors from the University of Pittsburgh Department of Physics and Astronomy has announced the discovery of a new electronic state…
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If the police commissioner in TV crime series finds a corpse, the forensic collects DNA traces, secures fingerprints, takes photos and casts shoe prints, tire…
Streaming films and music, scrolling through social media, and using cloud-based storage services are everyday activities now.
The exponential growth in computer processing power seen over the past 60 years may soon come to a halt. Complex systems such as those used in weather…
We've all shared the frustration — software updates that are intended to make our applications run faster inadvertently end up doing just the opposite. These…
3-D printing is often touted as the future of manufacturing. It allows us to directly build objects from computer-generated designs, meaning industry can…
What distinguishes terahertz quantum cascade lasers from other lasers is the fact that they emit light in the terahertz range of the electromagnetic spectrum….
Mass spectrometry permits the simultaneous and quantitative determination of minute quantities of thousands of biomolecules from tissues or body fluids. Such…
Using direct imaging with ground-based telescopes in Hawaii – W. M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on Maunakea – the team studied the orbits of these…
Reaching room-temperature superconductivity is one of the biggest dreams in physics. Its discovery would bring a technological revolution by providing…
The development of a quantum computer that can solve problems, which classical computers can only solve with great effort or not at all – this is the goal…
Cosmologists nowadays assume that matter was not distributed entirely evenly after the Big Bang. The denser places attracted more and more matter from their…
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