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…
An empty street, a row of parked cars at the side: nothing to indicate that you should be careful. But wait: Isn't there a side street up ahead, half covered…
Through the crafty use of magnetic fields, scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the Johannes Kepler University in Linz have…
We are surrounded by a multitude of sensors that permanently measure the environment – and produce a real flood of data. For example, modern geo-information is…
A team led by Prof Dmitry Budker has continued their search for dark matter within the framework of the ‘Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment’ (or ‘CASPEr’…
Topological insulators are materials with astonishing properties: Electric current flows only along their surfaces or edges, whereas the interior of the…
Among events during the week was announcement of new APS Fellows, a recognition for outstanding achievement that no more than one-half of one percent of the…
Structured light is a fancy way to describe patterns or pictures of light, but deservedly so as it promises future communications that will be both faster and…
Transistors based on AlScN are promising for various industrial applications, such as data transfer, satellite communication, radar systems or autonomous…
The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald and the U.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison have founded a joint research project to…
A decades-old mystery: where are the most energetic particles coming from?
A team of researchers in Tübingen show that optical flow systems based on deep neural networks – a likely component of future autonomous cars – are vulnerable…
Future computer technology based on insulating antiferromagnets is progressing. Electrically insulating antiferromagnets such as iron oxide and nickel oxide…
Imaging techniques that employ quantum light are becoming of major importance nowadays, since their capabilities in terms of resolution and sensitivity can…
As of yet, there are no universal quantum computers in the world. But for the first time, an international team led by TUM physicists Rudolf Gross, Frank Deppe…
Computer scientists created a new algorithm to recommend tags for social media posts which should boost the popularity of the post in question. This algorithm…
When one imagines a swimmer, their image would probably be of either an Olympian performing the front-crawl, a Salmon fighting upstream, or a shark racing…
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