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…
Giant clouds of molecular gas – the most massive objects in our galaxy – are the birthplaces of stars. “This newly discovered gas cloud is shaped like a very…
Often touted as a wonder material, graphene is a one-atom thick layer of carbon with remarkable, record breaking properties. Until now its ability to absorb…
Big Data is everywhere, and we are constantly told that it holds the answers to almost any problem we want to solve. Companies collect information on how we…
The idea to perform data processing with light, without relying on any electronic components, has been around for quite some time. In fact, necessary…
The pictures were taken from several miles away with a camera intended for portraits, and at sunset. From these fuzzy snapshots, that person claims to know the…
Walking around the streets searching for a place to eat will be no hassle when a head-mounted display (HMD) becomes affordable and ubiquitous. Researchers at…
The investigators operated a silicon-germanium (SiGe) transistor at 798 gigahertz (GHz) fMAX, exceeding the previous speed record for silicon-germanium chips…
The University of Oxford, a member of the Low Frequency Aperture Array (LFAA) consortium, working together with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation…
With their broad field of application in basic research, diagnostics and therapy, antibodies represent one of the most important groups of proteins in biotechnology. However, due to their complex folding and assembly, industrial production of antibodies is costly. Consequently, improving antibody properties is of high commercial interest. The present technology here improves antibody´s biophysical properties by introducing two intra-molecular modifications in the antibody structure. This results in an significantlyenhancedstabilityandsecretion.
Armed with just the right atomic arrangements, superconductors allow electricity to flow without loss and radically enhance energy generation, delivery, and…
Scientists hope that patterning magnetic materials with nanometer-scale structures will help the development of non-volatile electronic memories with large…
The disk drive in a computer works by using a magnetic field to change the physical properties of a tiny volume of a magnetically susceptible material. Current…
”Artificial graphene” should lead to faster, smaller and lighter electronic and optical devices of all kinds, including higher performance photovoltaic…
New research at the University of Arkansas reveals a novel magnetoelectric effect that makes it possible to control magnetism with an electric field.The novel…
A team of scientists led by Wes Patterson of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel, Md., and Geoffrey Collins of Wheaton College, Norton,…
What if you forgot about Valentine’s Day, and now it’s too late to send that certain someone roses. Someday, you’ll at least be able to send their scent.A…
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