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 solar system, discovered by a team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Herzberg Institute of…
An international team of astronomers has discovered a fourth giant planet, HR 8799e, outside our solar system. The new planet joins the three planets that were…
Physicists from Rice University and Princeton University have discovered how to use one of the information technology industry's mainstay materials — gallium…
This invention describes a medium for identification and authentification goods, based on periodic, three-dimensional surface structures.
“It is extremely rare for a high school student to be a co-author on a physics paper. Statistics on this aren't available, but it is likely less than 1 paper…
Researchers at RIKEN, Japan’s flagship research institution, have successfully devised the world’s first experimental technique for measuring ground-state…
Instead, for some reason, more matter was created than anti-matter, and the universe was born.”Without this asymmetry that occurred, without this slight…
This “Terminator” scenario is becoming less far-fetched as recent advances in structural health monitoring systems have led to a variety of ways to identify…
These mysterious “poly(dA) repeats” are sprinkled throughout the human genome. Scientists have also found them in the genomes of animals, plants and other…
These range from increased demand for bandwidth in optical communications, to the emergence of bio-health hazards associated with hazardous microorganisms that…
Evidence that the toxic element arsenic can replace the essential nutrient phosphorus in biomolecules of a naturally occurring bacterium expands the scope of…
Using data from a sensitive instrument aboard a satellite that images the entire sky every 102 minutes, they studied four of these stars, or novae, that…
Solving this “insight problem” requires creativity, a skill at which humans excel (the coin is a fake – “B.C.” and Arabic numerals did not exist at the time)…
One of the most important socioeconomic changes in human history, this socioeconomic shift, known as the Neolithic transition, spread gradually across Europe…
Rice University researchers have discovered a simple way to make carbon nanotubes shine brighter.The Rice lab of researcher Bruce Weisman, a pioneer in…
According to Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, the results provide valuable information for researchers…
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