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…
In over 200 years, the world has experienced four major industrial revolutions. While the first implemented steam power for mechanized production, the second…
Electric diodes are essential electronic components that conduct electricity in one direction but prevent conduction in the opposite one. They are found at the…
Astronomers have gleaned some of the best data yet on the composition of a planet known as HR 8799c–a young giant gas planet about 7 times the mass of Jupiter…
Ludvig de Knoop, from Chalmers' Department of Physics, placed a small piece of gold in an electron microscope. Observing it at the highest level of…
Using machine-learning and an integrated photonic chip, researchers from INRS (Canada) and the University of Sussex (UK) can now customize the properties of…
A team of researchers from the Earthquake Research Institute, Department of Civil Engineering and Information Technology Center at the University of Tokyo, and…
Some fly out into space, while others are funneled along magnetic field lines into Earth's upper atmosphere where they create auroras, or wreak havoc on power…
Magnetic reconnection has remained a bit of a mystery to scientists. They know it exists and have documented the effects that the energy explosions can…
MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a wireless system that leverages the cheap RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potential…
Astronomers from the Observatory of the University of Hamburg were involved in the discovery of a new planet. As part of an international research team led by…
Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity in 1915. The waves are disturbances in space time generated by…
We are reaching the limits of silicon capabilities in terms of data storage density and speed of memory devices. One of the potential next-generation data…
Included among PPPL staffers were members of the Science Education Department who presented their work focused on workforce development and diversity, and…
A reflection always reproduces objects as a complete mirror image, rather than just its individual parts or individual parts in a completely different…
The observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii is world-famous. Less well-known is the fact that the Hawaiian Islands are home to one of the leading institutes for…
The scientists used the magnetism of single atoms, known as spin, as a basic building block for quantum information processing. The researchers could show that…
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