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…
Glass materials are ubiquitous in everyday life, ranging from window panes to porcelain espresso cups. Even PET plastic bottles, made of long polymeric…
Lasers generating high-intensity and ultra-short XUV and X-ray pulses give researchers new options for investigating the fundamental properties of matter in…
One of the greatest mysteries in astronomy right now is the origin of short, dramatic bursts of radio light seen across the universe, known as Fast Radio…
More significantly, observations show the galaxies are participants in a sweeping cosmic makeover called reionization. The era began when light from the first…
But it is a “gentle giant,” say researchers, because it looks like it has been sitting quietly over billions of years, possibly sipping hydrogen from the…
The remarkable tetrahedral structure has now been imaged for the first time with a scanning tunnelling microscope. This high-tech microscope can visualise…
The galaxy (named AGC 203001), is located about 260 million light-years away from us. There is only one other such known system with such a large neutral…
Imagine a world where people could only talk to their next-door neighbor, and messages must be passed house to house to reach far destinations.
Since the experimental production of graphene, two-dimensional materials have been at the heart of materials research. Similar to carbon, a single layer of…
Spintronics is a modern technological field where the “spin” or the angular momentum of electrons takes a primary role in the functioning of electronic…
Laptops and servers would be doomed to heat-death if there were no energy-guzzling and voluminous technology to cool the sensitive circuits. Unwanted, but so…
The inner region of our Milky Way galaxy is characterised by large amounts of warm gas, cosmic-rays and enhanced radio emission. “Astronomers have been…
This image includes newly published observations using an instrument designed and built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Called…
The aim of the OPS-SAT mission, which is being controlled from ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, is to carry out low-risk tests on…
Further, the AI identified features relevant to cancer prognosis that were not previously noted by pathologists, leading to a higher accuracy of prostate…
The aim of the OPS-SAT mission, which is being controlled from ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, is to carry out low-risk tests on space…
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