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…
The discovery of the thick disc, a major result from a five-year investigation, will help astronomers better understand the processes involved in the formation…
In November, the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, for the first time ever, named the Chinese Tianhe-1A system at the National Computer…
“Wireless communication is a one-way street. Over.”Radio traffic can flow in only one direction at a time on a specific frequency, hence the frequent use of…
Led by University of Illinois physics professor Nadya Mason, the group published its findings in the journal Nature Physics.When a current is applied to a…
Trapping electrons in a flat plane prevents them from moving freely in the third dimension and opens the door to a whole range of unusual physics. These…
Faced with global issues concerning the environment and energy and the need to build a sustainable society, we must develop new technologies for generating and…
As part of an ongoing effort to uncover details of how high-temperature superconductors carry electrical current with no resistance, scientists at Johns…
Stardust will approach to within 124 miles of Tempel 1 at 10:56 p.m. CST Monday, Feb. 14. The spacecraft flew within 150 miles of comet Wild 2 in 2004, when it…
Cyclohexane compounds and their use as antibiotics.
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Related Art – Basically a Class D power amplifier compares an input voltage with a saw tooth reference. The comparison yields a pulse series with a duty cycle…
The seeds that later became moon trees orbited the moon 34 times in the Apollo 14 command module. In this classic Apollo 14 image, taken just before the lunar…
Neutron scattering is one way to find out. The Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory offers fusion researchers with the U.S. ITER Project…
However, understanding—and ultimately controlling—this effect remains a challenge, because much about manganite physics is still not known. A research team…
It's been seven years since the original Stardust danced with Wild 2 out beyond the orbit of Mars, capturing a thimbleful of comet dust in its collector. It's…
Product piracy long ago ceased to be limited exclusively to the consumer goods sector. Industry, too, is increasingly having to combat this problem. Cheap…
A key component of the STEREO mission is NRL's Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI), a suite of five scientific telescopes that…
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