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…
“We've looked for the usual suspects in the usual places and found no solid signals, so we've started searching in some creative new ways,” said Julie McEnery,…
Venus may have had a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history, according to computer…
Many properties of our everyday world can be explained if atoms are thought of as small, solid marbles, which feel each other only if brought in direct contact…
Atomic force microscopes make the nanostructure of surfaces visible. Their probes scan the investigation material with finest measurement needles. KIT has now…
The researchers found that the number of these spots corresponds exactly to the number of scattering microscopic particles in the optical material. Therefore,…
In the past few years, optical atomic clocks have made spectacular progress, becoming 100 times more precise than the best caesium clocks. So far, their…
New research at the University of Rochester might help authorities in the not-too-distant future be better informed in tackling such situations and do so more…
According to the scientists behind the study, from Imperial College London, the coupled light and electron would have properties that could lead to circuits…
Making such devices possible is the goal of a relatively new field of study called “transient electronics.” These transient devices could perform a variety of…
Science fiction is inching closer to reality with the development of revolutionary self-propelling liquid metals — a critical step towards future elastic…
The technology comprises a method for determination of VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) concentration directly in vivo in the eye by use of an implantable, semi-permeable biosensor.
Nanotechnology is revolutionising the way we live by making microelectronic systems even smaller, enabling new developments in diagnosis and treatment in…
The current treatments for tuberculosis and leishmaniosis have many drawbacks: long treatment duration,appearance of resistances,toxic side effects. Our new treatment suggests an immune activator based on a synthetic analogue of an active glycolipid.
A septum is an electromagnet, pulsed with high electricity. This sort of magnet is used at the transitions from one storage ring to the next one.
Possible scopes of application of the invention might be the use for accelerators in medicine or in future large-scale research facilities.
For viewers it seems to be very difficult to tell the difference between real and artificially rendered 3-D films. Psychologists at Johannes Gutenberg…
Called CubeSats, swarms of these small marvels could potentially take on NASA's riskiest missions — think exploring the surface of Venus or the volcanoes of…
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