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 polarization of waves describes their direction of oscillation, for light as an electromagnetic wave this is the direction of the electric field vector….
For scientists, meteorites are valuable witnesses of our early Solar System. They consist of the oldest building blocks of our planetary system but also…
Short lived isotopes of both radon and radium have both been identified as potential candidates for measuring EDM in atoms.
Many patients with rare diseases go through lengthy trials and tribulations until they are correctly diagnosed. “This results in a loss of valuable time that…
They applied a layer of graphene to gallium nitride, a commonly used semiconductor. The graphene is made of a single layer of atoms, while the gallium nitride…
The three classic physical states – solid, liquid and gaseous – can be observed in any normal kitchen, for example when you bring an ice cube to the boil. But…
University of Michigan researchers believe they have the answer, and hope to prove it with help from NASA's Parker Solar Probe.
In a paper published in Physical Review Applied, Andrew Jordan, professor of physics at the University of Rochester, and his graduate student Sreenath…
Fraunhofer FIT used the noisy hustle and bustle during the colorful Rhine in Flames event in early May for a field trial of their new version of a security…
We ubiquitously stream videos, we download audiobooks to mobile devices, and we store huge numbers of photos on our devices. In short, the storage capacity we…
Low temperatures are essential for basic research in the field of quantum physics. More and more technologies based on quantum mechanics are now also making…
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are, so to say, a computer manufacturer's “Lego bricks”: electronic components that can be employed in a more flexible…
A consortium of scientists from the Medical Imaging Center (University Medical Center Groningen), Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (University of…
Police forces encounter a suspicious room during a house search – a room that could be anything: a drug or explosive laboratory or just a fake. In order to…
The use of strong electromagnetic radiation to push materials out of their normal equilibrium is a new frontier in this field. Such manipulation leads to the…
In a study that combines experimental work and theoretical calculations made possible by supercomputers, scientists have determined the nuclear geometry of two…
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