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…
“This region is behind a nearby cloud of dust and gas,” said Charles Kerton, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University and a…
A nearby system hosts the first Earth-sized planet discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite, as well as a warm sub-Neptune-sized world,…
When particles bond in free space, they normally create atoms or molecules. However, much more exotic bonding states can be produced inside solid objects.
Quantum computers promise to solve certain computational problems exponentially faster than any classical machine. “A particularly promising application is the…
“When we think about the future, we are confronted by a vast array of possibilities,” explains Assistant Professor Mile Gu of NTU Singapore, who led…
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley have built a new photonic switch that can control the direction of light passing through optical fibers…
Today, in coordinated press conferences across the globe including one at National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C., an international team of astronomers…
Tohoku University researchers have developed an algorithm that enhances the ability of a Canadian-designed quantum computer to more efficiently find the best…
Modern electronics relies on ultrafast charge motion on ever shorter length scales. Physicists from Regensburg and Gothenburg have now succeeded in resolving a…
Mason, a graduate student at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., was searching for coronal rain: giant globs of plasma, or electrified gas,…
Engineers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have developed a novel concept for rapid data transfer via optical fibre cables. In current systems, a laser transmits…
Planetary fragment identified in a disc of debris circling a dead star 400 light years away
Thought to be rich in heavy metals iron and nickel which helped it…
Hokkaido University researchers have developed a computational method that can predict how clusters of molecules behave and interact over time, providing…
In the course of their first annual meeting, the ICNAP partners ranked three subject areas as being in particularly urgent need of attention and selected them…
The way power is generated is in transition: Whereas, before, all our power came from big power plants, these days it comes from a range of distributed sources…
The car of tomorrow will drive itself. Passengers will move down the road as if being driven by a private chauffeur while enjoying conversation, reading a…
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