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…
Laser spectroscopy of neutral atoms and singly charged ions has reached astonishing precision by merit of a chain of technological advances during the past…
A computer chip processes and stores information using two different devices. If engineers could combine these devices into one or put them next to each other,…
The spatial distribution of different types of cells can reveal a cancer's growth pattern, its relationship with the surrounding microenvironment, and the…
“Usually, you have sacrifice either size or image quality. We've been able to achieve both with our microendoscope,” says Mark Foster, an associate professor…
Using a clever technique that causes unruly crystals of iron selenide to snap into alignment, Rice University physicists have drawn a detailed map that reveals…
Physicists at University of California, Riverside, have designed an experiment to explain the concept of magnetic resonance. The project was carried out by…
In the not too distant future, we can expect to see our skies filled with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) delivering packages, maybe even people, from location…
Move over Godzilla vs. King Kong — this is the crossover event you've been waiting for. Well, at least if you're a condensed matter physicist. Harvard…
The interaction between light and matter is the basis of both many fundamental phenomena and various practical technologies.
The OSIRIS-REx team first observed a particle ejection event in images captured by the spacecraft's navigation cameras taken on Jan. 6, just a week after the…
Nuclear physics usually involves high energies, as illustrated by experiments to master controlled nuclear fusion. One of the problems is how to overcome the…
Scientists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have implemented a novel pressure measurement method, quasi as a byproduct of the work on the…
CHEOPS (short for CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) consists of a space telescope developed and assembled by the University of Bern, in collaboration with…
The “InfoFormulizer” project is being coordinated by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Jablonski of the Databases and Information Systems research group. Project partners…
Computers can learn to find solar flares and other events in vast streams of solar images and help NOAA forecasters issue timely alerts, according to a new…
Every character has a back story, and so do high-temperature superconductors, which conduct electricity with no loss at much higher temperatures than…
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