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…
Demonstrating the remarkable properties of graphene won the two scientists the Nobel Prize for Physics last year and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne…
An iPhone app that measures the user's heart rate is not only a popular feature with consumers, but it sparked an idea for a Worcester Polytechnic Institute…
Finding these hidden gems in the Hubble archive gives astronomers an invaluable time machine for comparing much earlier planet orbital motion data to more…
The VERITAS experiment measured gamma rays coming from the Crab Pulsar at such large energies that they cannot be explained by current scientific models of how…
The team's findings are published in the Oct. 7 issue of the journal Science. “This is the first time very-high-energy gamma rays have been detected from a…
As reported this week in Nature Communications, the researchers used the atomically-sharp tip of a scanning tunneling microscope to move 1-nanometer sized…
Few people have ever claimed to see three rainbows arcing through the sky at once. In fact, scientific reports of these phenomena, called tertiary rainbows,…
Supernovas — stars in the process of exploding — open a window onto the history of the elements of Earth's periodic table as well as the history of the…
Rice University physicists have created a tiny “electron superhighway” that could one day be useful for building a quantum computer, a new type of computer…
The 'micro putter', developed in a study published today, 5 October 2011, in IOP Publishing's journal Measurement Science and Technology, has been designed to…
SportSense is a computer program the engineers created to analyze NFL fan tweets in real time. The program can tell within seconds when touchdowns,…
The SCALANCE-X-500 switches are especially suitable for configuring large automation networks and connecting them to the company's IT system. Typical areas of…
They linked concepts of quantum optics and condensed matter physics and show a direction to build a quantum computer which is immune against perturbations. The…
This pioneering method promises a new approach for studying the co-evolution of galaxies and their central black holes. First results indicate that for…
A Rice laboratory led by chemist Stephan Link has discovered a way to use liquid crystals to control light scattered from gold nanorods. The researchers use…
Its surface material composition differs in important ways from both those of the other terrestrial planets and expectations prior to the MESSENGER mission,…
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