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…
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in collaboration with their colleagues at the University of Hamburg in Germany, have imaged an exotic…
The experimental setup included a quantum dot – i.e. a solid structure of only about 10,000 atoms – next to a reservoir with electrons. About 100 times per…
The development of quantum computers is the major goal of industrial and university research efforts worldwide. The main problem in the realization of a…
Scientists have used precisely tuned pulses of laser light to film the ultrafast rotation of a molecule. The resulting “molecular movie” tracks one and a half…
Camera performance on mobile devices has proven to be one of the features that most end-users aim for. The importance of optical image quality improvement, and…
The device, which is detailed July 24 in the journal Nature, could eventually lead to smaller, more efficient quantum computers that operate by manipulating…
Modern virtual reality (VR) technologies are not only common in the entertainment industry, they are increasingly becoming prevalent in the area of research…
Moore's law – which says the number of components that could be etched onto the surface of a silicon wafer would double every two years – has been the subject…
Future wireless data networks will have to reach higher transmission rates and shorter delays, while supplying an increasing number of end devices. For this…
Sound like wishful thinking? The first steps towards this vision have been undertaken by a multi-institution research collaboration that includes Jonathan Ozik…
Researchers at the Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems (PCS), within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea), and colleagues have…
The most enticing feature of this southernmost region is the craters, some of which never see the light of day reach their floors. The reason for this is the…
Electrons moving in a strong magnetic field perform a circular motion due to the Lorentz force, on which electromagnetic induction and the electric motor are…
For over 50 years, X-ray crystallography has been the foremost method for the determination of three dimensional structures of biological macromolecules.
For a long time now, physicists have known about interesting phenomena such as the AHE in which spins of a certain species accumulate on a film edge. Their…
This could be a step toward molecular computing–building circuits up from molecules rather than carving them out of silicon as a way to max out Moore's Law…
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