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…
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The image from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope shows what our galaxy would look like if human eyes could see radio waves.
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By controlling individual atoms, quantum properties can be investigated and made usable for technological applications. For about ten years, physicists have…
A team of NASA scientists leveraged LISA Pathfinder's record-setting sensitivity for a different purpose much closer to home — mapping microscopic dust shed…
Physicists use two types of measurements to calculate the expansion rate of the universe, but their results do not coincide, which may make it necessary to…
With new images from NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO), the researchers have revealed in groundbreaking, granular detail what appears to be a likely…
The switch's record-breaking performance is a major new step toward building a computer that uses light instead of electricity to process information. Relying…
A light beam is usually divided by being directed onto a partially reflecting mirror: Part of the light is then reflected back to create the mirror image. The…
Global Internet penetration has increased significantly in recent decades and finally surpassed the 50% mark of the world's population at the end of 2017. At…
The world around us has one temporal and three spatial dimensions. Physicists studying condensed matter have long been dealing with systems of lower…
A study that takes a novel approach to the search for dark matter has been performed by the BASE Collaboration at CERN working together with a team at the…
In the nanometer range, complex, free-standing 3D architectures are very difficult to produce in a single step due to the required precision. In the Christian…
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