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…
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Scientists at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada have created the most dense, solid-state memory in history that could soon exceed the capabilities…
The research, led by Cornelius Hempel and Thomas Monz, explores a promising pathway for developing effective ways to model chemical bonds and reactions using…
Using data from Gaia astrometry satellite, astronomers at Heidelberg University investigated the movement of millions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. For the…
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Digital computation has rendered nearly all forms of analog computation obsolete since as far back as the 1950s. However, there is one major exception that…
Its abundance in our solar system–despite its rarity on Earth–makes metallic hydrogen an intriguing focus for researchers at the University of Rochester's…
As described in a new paper in the journal Fire Technology, the NIST blue-light imaging method can be a useful tool for obtaining visual data from large test…
Auroras flare up when energetic particles plunge into a planet's atmosphere, bombarding gases and making them glow. While electrons generally cause this…
Researchers have shown that it is possible to train artificial neural networks directly on an optical chip. The significant breakthrough demonstrates that an…
Watch a movie backwards and you'll likely get confused – but a quantum computer wouldn't. That's the conclusion of researcher Mile Gu at the Centre for Quantum…
Metallic glasses — alloys lacking the crystalline structure normally found in metals — are an exciting research target for tantalizing applications,…
The study, presented here today (July 16, 2018) at a meeting of internet network researchers, portrays critical communications infrastructure that could be…
When an insulating ferrimagnet is heated, the heat is first deposited in the atomic lattice which causes the atoms to move randomly around their cold…
As society moves toward connecting all objects to the internet – even furniture and office supplies – the technology that enables these objects to communicate…
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