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…
A team of computer engineers from Vanderbilt University’s Institute of Software Integrated Systems has made such a scenario possible by developing an…
Weighing twice as much as the Sun, it is the most massive neutron star measured to date. Together with a short orbital period of only 2.5 hours, the system…
The mission, called EVEX, for the Equatorial Vortex Experiment, will launch two rockets for a twelve-minute journey through the equatorial ionosphere above the…
“Let's say you have a large population of cells,” said Corey Neu, an assistant professor in Purdue University's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. “Just…
Experimental NASA research models show that the first CME began at 9:30 p.m. EDT on April 24. The second CME began at 5:24 a.m. EDT on April 25. Both left the…
A dramatic leap forward in the ability of scientists to study the structural states of macromolecules such as proteins and nanoparticles in solution has been…
Many people suffer from pain due to poor posture of the musculoskeletal system. Such complaints may eventually lead to premature withdrawal from the labour…
This new driver assistance system allows the situation-adapted and correct-direction display as well as a selection of possible maneuvers in a semi-automated…
A team including Carnegie's Michele Fumagalli used data from the Hubble Space Telescope to set a lower limit for the blazar's redshift (z ¡Ý 0.6035). An…
“Galaxies burn gas like a car engine burns fuel. Most galaxies have fairly inefficient engines, meaning they form stars from their stellar fuel tanks far below…
UCLA space scientists have now devised a way to monitor these types of collisions in interplanetary space by using a new method to determine the mass of…
The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their clearest view yet of Comet ISON, a newly-discovered sun grazer comet that may light up the sky…
A dense sheet of electrons accelerated to close to the speed of light can act as a tuneable mirror that can generate bursts of laser-like radiation in the…
At REHACARE 2012, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation unveiled a pioneering mobile emergency assistance system that combines an…
A Harvard-led team of researchers has created a new type of nanoscale device that converts an optical signal into waves that travel along a metal surface….
Fetuin-B is necessary for fertilization. Scientists of the RWTH Aachen University discovered, that this liver-derived plasma protein sustains fertility by…
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