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…
You probably shouldn’t lose too much sleep about it, according to an Indiana University of Pennsylvania geoscientist.“Thousands of old satellites, rocket…
Physicists at the RUB, working in collaboration with researchers from Grenoble and Tokyo, have succeeded in taking a decisive step towards the development of…
Users analyze real scientific data collected by NASA's Kepler mission, which has been searching for planets beyond our own solar system — called exoplanets —…
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University of Oregon researchers have devised a mathematically rich analytic approach to account for often-missing thermodynamic and molecular parameters in…
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The sunshield will consist of five tennis court-sized layers to allow the Webb telescope to cool to its cryogenic operating temperature of minus 387.7 degrees…
At the heart of many metabolic processes, including DNA replication, are enzymes called helicases. Acting like motors, these proteins travel along one side of…
The team unveiled in a report in the journal Physical Review Letters this month a ready-made method for detecting the collision of stars with an elusive type…
Highly adherent and scratch-resistant coating is required to protect certain surfaces efficiently against erosion. The invention presented here consists in…
Founded in 1954, the SAG collection today comprises around 2400 strains (representing 538 genera and 1424 species) from almost all evolutionarylineages of…
Quantum mechanics describes the complete information of any given system. Even though nanotechnology has developed tremendously during the last decades, one…
Here, Mitsuteru Inoue and colleagues at Toyohashi University of Technology demonstrate that magnonic crystals—artificial magnetic crystal structures for…
“It's kind of a chicken or egg problem: Which came first, the supermassive black hole or the massive galaxy? This study shows that even low-mass galaxies have…
Curtis Struck, an Iowa State professor of physics and astronomy, uses a News & Views commentary in the Sept. 15 issue of Nature to add context and color to a…
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