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 findings mean that future studies of exoplanetary systems will be more complicated. Astronomers can no longer assume all planets orbit their parent star…
New findings from computer modeling indicate that some of those exoplanets might fluctuate between being habitable and being inhospitable to life because of…
The first two types of supernova are either hot, young giants that go out in a violent display as they collapse under their own weight, or old, dense, white…
QDs can be moved with “optical tweezers” – a system that sets up a gradient of forces from multiple laser beams – or by electrophoresis, in which a microscopic…
Experiments conducted by Sandia National Laboratories at the International Space Station preliminarily indicate that the problem could be remedied by orbiting…
Physicists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have developed a quantum interface which connects light particles and atoms. The interface is based on an…
For more than a decade, astronomers have been puzzled by bright galaxies in the distant universe that appear to be forming stars at phenomenal rates. What…
The planet, called WASP-12b, is so close to its sunlike star that it is superheated to nearly 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit and stretched into a football shape by…
Internet, networks of connections between Hollywood actors, etc, are examples of complex networks, whose properties have been intensively studied in recent…
An integrated heating and stirring device (iHSD) for use in a digester is proposed. A turbulent incident flow at heating parts of this integrated device…
Among the various types of butterflies, swallowtails are unique in that their wing area is very large relative to their body mass. This combined with their…
New research published today, Thursday, 20 May, in New Journal of Physics (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and German Physical Society), shows that…
The invention discloses molecules, which are activated,
when function of Secreted Fizzled Related Protein 1
(SFRP1) is lost. SFRP1 is known to have…
Etnangien is an antibiotic compound, which inhibits the activity of RNA-polymerases in bacteria.
In view of the fermentation process for etnangien using a…
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new nanotechnology-based “microlens” that uses gold to boost the strength of infrared…
John Wagner, Technical Integration Manager for Nuclear Modeling within ORNL's Nuclear Science and Technology Division (NSTD), says one of the goals of his…
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