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…
“Having received the green light on our design during NASA's Critical Design Review, we are moving out on full implementation of our instrument,” said Cathy…
Christian Stamm and his colleagues at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Mate-rialien und Energie (HZB) can look back on six years of pioneering work at the…
The volcano-chasing researchers argue this adds a further dimension to understanding the detailed nature of volcanic plumes and their effects on air travel.The…
Only about one percent of supermassive black holes exhibit this behavior. The new findings confirm that black holes “light up” when galaxies collide, and the…
A halo may be difficult to acquire in terms of virtue, but it can also be tough to calculate in terms of physics. Thomas Papenbrock, associate professor of…
Is it possible to protect wood against termites without the use of heavily toxic compounds? Scientists at University of Göttingen (Germany), identified the use…
Scientists of the University of Göttingen developed a new endophytic fungal isolate for plant protection against herbivorous insects. The isolate growths…
Entrepreneurs with a commercial plan to use the EGNOS satellite navigation signal have a chance to make their vision a reality by applying for the Special…
Quantum computers hold the promise of offering a new route to solving some classes of these problems, such as breaking encryptions. The tremendous computing…
The Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) will be the primary imager on the Webb telescope and will measure light in the spectrum in the wavelength range of 0.6 to 5…
A team of astronomy researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology, Florida Institute of Technology and University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, find that…
The Search and Rescue Mission Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in collaboration with several government agencies, has developed…
Why is there matter in the universe and not antimatter, its opposite? Physicists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, including John Ellison, a professor…
Using instruments aboard NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft, four post-doctoral fellows at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory were able to track the comet as…
In addition to lithium-11 and berrylium-14, the neutron-rich isotope carbon-22 (22C) could also be a Borromean ‘halo’ nucleus, a team of researchers from Japan…
Not all explosions are created equal – it's as true for film effects as it is for stars. An international team of scientists, including a University of Arizona…
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