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 system is an advance in a type of technology called “computer vision,” which enables computers to read and identify visual images.
During the conversion of light into electricity, such as in solar cells, a large part of the input light energy is lost. This is due to the behaviour of…
When stars collapse, they can create black holes, which are everywhere throughout the universe and therefore important to be studied. Black holes are…
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope photographed comet 46P/Wirtanen on Dec. 13, when the comet was 7.4 million miles (12 million kilometers) from Earth. In this…
At the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN near Geneva, the Large Hadron Collider's second run of collisions and collecting data on particles and…
Training neural networks to perform tasks like recognize objects, navigate self-driving cars or play games eats up a lot of computing power and time.
Through a unique neutron experiment at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, experimental physicists resolved the weak force between the…
Russian scientists have come closer to creating a digital system to process speech in real-life sound environment, for example, when several people talk…
A team of international researchers, including experts from the University of Exeter's Physics and Astronomy department, have observed a rare stellar outburst…
The aim of this project is the systematic investigation of the thermodynamic and dynamic properties of disordered systems with local quantum degrees of…
The properties of the matter, which surrounds us in our everyday life, are typically the result of complex interactions between electrons. These…
A team from the Research and Educational Center “Functional Nanomaterials” of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (BFU) together with an international…
“We estimate that this 'ring rain' drains an amount of water products that could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool from Saturn's rings in half an hour,” said…
Lack of control of the variables determining the response of a system is usually seen as a curse in science and technology. But what about a slight pinch of…
The smartphone displays raised the question of how round shapes in tempered glass can be separated, both quickly and easily. The question has significantly…
Around the world, researchers are attempting to shrink data storage devices to achieve as large a storage capacity in as small a space as possible. In almost…
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