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 development could lead to intelligent camera systems that figure out what they are seeing simply by the patterns of light that run through a 3D engineered…
In the research project “5G-SMART: 5G for smart manufacturing”, funded by the European Union for the next two and a half years, the partners are building 5G…
Due to modern advances in medicine ever smaller objects are moved through the human body: nanotherapeutics, micro-implants, mini-catheters and tiny medical…
Using the software module, a robot can identify constant and variable errors in the signals of its sensors and malfunctions of electromechanical drives and…
They placed an atomically sharp magnetic probe tip in front of a magnetic sample surface, thereby realizing a one-dimensional trap for electrons in the gap.
The existence of magnetic skyrmions as particle-like objects was predicted 30 years ago by theoretical physicists, but could only be proven experimentally in…
When two neutron stars collide, the matter at their core enters extreme states. An international research team has now studied the properties of matter…
Work performed by Professor John Goold's QuSys group in Trinity's School of Physics describes the science behind this tiny motor.
“Seeing the pictures appear on the computer screen was the best day at work I've ever had,” says Simen Ådnøy Ellingsen, an associate professor at the Norwegian…
Ion traps have proven to be a very successful technology for the control and manipulation of quantum particles. Today, they form the heart of the first…
For now, AR remains mostly a solo activity, but soon people might be using the technology for a variety of group activities, such as playing multi-user games…
The quantity of cosmic dust that trickles down to Earth each year ranges between several thousand and ten thousand tons. Most of the tiny particles come from…
The interaction between fields and matter is a recurring theme throughout physics. Classical cases such as the trajectories of one celestial body moving in the…
The β Pictoris system has fascinated astronomers for the last thirty years since it enables them to observe a planetary system in the process of forming around…
Researchers at Purdue University have created a quantum spin wave for light. This can be a carrier of information for future nanotechnologies but with a unique…
Needle pricks not your thing? A team of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, is developing wearable skin sensors that can detect what's in…
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