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…
Just as electronics revolutionized computing and communications technology, spintronics is touted to follow suit. This relatively new field involves…
Tohru MotobayashiTeam Leader, SAMURAI TeamCoordinator, Research Instrument GroupRIBF Research DivisionRIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based ScienceAtomic…
“The start of space simulation testing of the MIRI is the last major engineering activity needed to enable its delivery to NASA. It represents the culmination…
The web portal is the platform for direct sharing and dissemination of relevant smart grid information, ranging from background documents, deployment…
A cheetah lies still in the grass. Finally, a gazelle comes into view. The cheetah plunges forward, reaches sixty-five miles per hour in three seconds, and has…
That's where the solar wind, an outward rush of charged particles and magnetic fields continuously spewed by the Sun, runs into the flow of particles and…
The new findings were published this week in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, a publication of the American Geophysical Union.NASA's…
Now, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have measured this effect at a more down-to-earth scale of 33 centimeters, or…
Stephen Tegler, NAU professor of physics and astronomy and lead author of “Methane and Nitrogen Abundances on Eris and Pluto,” will present the team’s findings…
The proof-of-concept experiment is reported in a paper about work led by UO physicist Michael G. Raymer that appeared in the Aug. 27 issue of Physical Review…
The planet, which is probably 30 percent larger than Earth, was discovered using one of the telescopes of the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea. It orbits a…
The Solar Probe Plus, a small car-sized spacecraft will plunge directly into the sun's atmosphere approximately four million miles from our star's surface. It…
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, has long been thought to be the dominant gravitational force in forming the Stream by pulling gas from the Clouds. A new…
The invention relates to an electrically conductive adhesive consisting of a conductive phase of carbon nanotubes distributed in a matrix. The carbon nanotubes…
The present invention is directed to a process for the diastereoselective synthesis of phosphorus compounds, particularly pronucleotides (nucleotide prodrugs)….
From his laboratory at The Ohio State University’s Byrd Polar Research Center (BPRC), the senior research scientist this week unveiled a low-resolution…
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