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…
Scientists at the RWTH Aachen University invented a straightforward method for the separation of amines produced via homogeneous catalyzed processes allowing…
The Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI participates in the new collaborative project Fortissimo (Factories of the Future…
Researchers in electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara have introduced and modeled an integrated circuit design scheme in which transistors and…
Researchers modeling how changes in air flow patterns affect wind turbines' output power have found that the wind can supply energy from an unexpected…
This concept, esoteric as it appears, is also neat because it is the basis for creating ultrastable quantum “playgrounds.” In topological systems, certain…
A newly published paper by three UC San Diego astrophysics researchers for the first time provides an explanation for the origin of three observed correlations…
Plasmas are a soup of charged particles in an electric field, and are normally found in stars and lightning bolts. With the use of high voltage equipment, very…
As anyone who has ever consumed bacteria-contaminated food and experienced “food poisoning” can tell you, it's a miserable experience. Yet it's an…
Active camouflage has taken a step forward at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), with a new coating that intrinsically conceals its…
This is the first time scientists have pinpointed a star that eventually exploded as a stripped-envelope supernova, called a type Ib, said David Sand, an…
Such tilted orbits had been found in planetary systems featuring a “hot Jupiter,” a giant planet in a close orbit to its host star. But, until now, they hadn't…
One of the most important requirements for efficient and specific gene targeting is delivering the nucleic acids to the site of interest and keeping them there…
This electrostatic precipitator allows an energetically favourable precipitation of particulate matter and aerosols. When aerosol concentrations are too high,…
Recent years have seen a strong increase in forgeries of products, documents and bank notes worldwide. Product forgeries of such items as pharmaceuticals and…
This invention presents a process for immobilising enzymes on fixed surfaces without the requirement of special functional groups. The inventive step in this…
There is a wide range of expensive security technologies for protecting hanging artworks, such as paintings in historically listed museums, from theft. These…
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