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 program, called AutomaDeD (pronounced like automated), finds errors in computer code for complex “parallel” programs.”The simulations take several weeks to…
The comparison, which relies on extremely precise measurements, reveals the motions of several hundreds of stars, which prove to be at odds with current models…
VI Fit, a project at the University of Nevada, Reno, helps children who are blind become more physically active and healthy through video games. The…
The SIM Time Network allows each of these nations to continuously compare their clocks, with the time differences between the nations displayed on a SIM Web…
Researchers at the University of Leicester are examining extraterrestrial material from a comet to assess the origins of our Solar System.For the first time…
Imagine creating novel devices with amazing and exotic optical properties not found in Nature—by simply evaporating a droplet of particles on a surface.By…
Their study explains the origin of these clouds for the first time.Swinburne University PhD student Alyson Ford (now at the University of Michigan) and her…
One such application enables queries answered by a digital text to be generated when it is opened, and then used to search for specific information in the text.
Silicon is subject to certain limitations, and industry is looking for a replacement. The electronics industry has net annual sales of over USD 200 billion,…
A team of planetary scientists has used radar and a high-resolution camera to reveal the subsurface geology of Mars' northern ice cap.The findings – based on…
The striking iridescent colours displayed on beetles, butterflies and other insects have long fascinated both physicists and biologists, but mimicking nature's…
A team of U.S. and Chinese physicists are zeroing in on critical effects at the heart of the latest high-temperature superconductors — but they're using other…
Scientists at the University of Göttingen developed a novel timber protecting composition based on fatty acids and paraffin derivatives for protecting Wood…
The nanoparticles in question are spheres of magnetite so tiny that a few thousand of them lined up would stretch a hair's width, and they have potential uses…
The mysteries of the Universe and how we came to be are set to be unlocked by a technique for modelling fluids, similar to one which is becoming increasingly…
The hail sensor developed by Prof. Dr. Löffler-Mang at University of Applied Sciences in Saarbrücken is suitable for the automatic registration of hail and for…
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