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 modern life sciences, mass spectrometry (MS) is often used as an analytic tool.
The presented method tackles the problem encountered when trying to…
In this month's special issue of Physics World devoted to the “physics of cancer”, Paul Davies, principal investigator at Arizona State University's Center for…
A team of scientists at USC has verified that quantum effects are indeed at play in the first commercial quantum optimization processor.The team demonstrated…
The technique, called Through-Focus Scanning Optical Microscopy (TSOM), has now been shown able to detect tiny differences in the three-dimensional shapes of…
The comic-book hero Superman uses his X-ray vision to spot bad guys lurking behind walls and other objects. Now we could all have X-ray vision, thanks to…
Finding extrasolar planets has become so commonplace that it seems astronomers merely have to look up and another world is discovered. However, results from…
A new report by an independent task force commissioned by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), has found that people absorb less…
Object-oriented programming languages with garbage collection such as Java considerably increase programmer productivity and software quality. A novel…
But, not all apps are what they appear to be. They can steal log-in and password information. In 2011, researchers at North Carolina State University…
Others form in huge, dense swarms that survive for billions of years as stellar clusters. Within such rich and dense clusters, stars jostle for room with…
Ovarian and highly aggressive endometrial carcinomas are the most common causes of cancer related deaths among gynaecological cancer diseases. Ovarian cancer…
In the project, funded by the D.F.G. (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – German Research Foundation), Eurotech R&D and the University of Regensburg will…
Our present understanding of thermodynamics is fundamentally incorrect if applied to small systems and needs to be modified, according to new research from…
The universe is awash in terahertz (THz) waves, as harmless as they are abundant. But unlike other regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, THz has proven to…
The invention provides a novel method of producing N-aryl carbamates (urethanes)
and/or N-aryl isocyanates through reductive carbonylation of aromatic nitro…
The new zbMATH web interface is online, with a completely new layout and innovative search functionality (http://zbmath.org). FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute…
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