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…
Fungi comprise chitin as a natural building block in their cell wall. Pathogenic fungi are often able to convert the chitin to chitosan – probably to escape…
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The European CRISMA project prepares for disasters by developing a decision-support tool to help the authorities, responders, communities and private parties…
This will help to find extra-solar planets, i.e. planets that are orbiting a star outside our solar-system. By refining this technology it might become…
Graphene has caused a lot of excitement among scientists since the extremely strong and thin carbon material was discovered in 2004. Just one atom thick, the…
It was a sensation when scientists discovered methane in Mars’ atmosphere nine years ago. Many saw the presence of the gas as a clear indication of life on the…
Die erfindungsgemäße Mikro- bzw. Nanopumpe kommt vollkommen ohne bewegliche mechanische Komponenten aus. Das zu fördernde Fluid selbst wird als Arbeits- bzw….
Over the past five years mathematicians and other scientists have been working on devices that enable invisibility cloaks – perhaps not yet concealing Harry…
And now light signals can be stored as patterns in a room-temperature vapor of atoms. Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (*) have stored not one but two…
In contrast, the Milky Way's center shows little activity. But it wasn't always so peaceful. New evidence of ghostly gamma-ray beams suggests that the Milky…
This system, created in the laboratory of Jasna Brujiæ, an assistant professor in NYU’s Department of Physics and part of its Center for Soft Matter Research,…
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The new material density sensor enables contactless and highly sensitive mass flow measurements of dielectric materials transported in pipe lines or with…
Known as Titan, the system will be at the center of a security community that will help create safety in numbers as companies large and small add their threat…
Here is a new microchip that can transfer data the size of 80 MP3 song files (or 250 megabytes) wirelessly between mobile devices, in the flick of a second.Or…
Scientists with the University of Arizona-led asteroid sample return mission OSIRIS-REx have measured the orbit of their destination asteroid, 1999 RQ36, with…
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