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…
Recent breakthroughs by their team at JILA, a joint institute of CU-Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, have paved the way on how…
Physicists have taken major step forward in the development of practical phonon lasers, which emit sound in much the same way that optical lasers emit light.The development should lead to new, high-resolution imaging devices and medical applications. Just as optical lasers have been incorporated into countless, ubiquitous devices, a phonon laser is likely to be critical to a host of as yet unimaginable applications….
The present invention permits to produce biocoal by charging coal particles with minerals obtained from the processing fluid of biogas plants. The invention is…
The Phase Change ROM is based on the invention that in amorphous GaOx crystallization of Ga2O3 causes a jump in the electrical conductivity of more than 7…
That is, the difference that soil, weather and location make in the taste of a vintage. The French refer to it as “terroir,” and the researchers' goal is to…
Such encounters between dwarf galaxies are normally seen billions of light-years away and therefore occurred billions of years ago. But these galaxies, members…
Professor Rau is the only Canadian researcher among the group of 60 scientists involved in the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment (CDMS) whose latest…
McGuire and Luebke have developed a new method for computerizing lighting and light sources that will allow video game graphics to approach film quality. Their…
NEOS has been used extensively for a variety of applications, including modeling electricity markets, predicting global protein folding and training artificial…
The new study reveals that most of the jet's light—gamma rays, the universe's most energetic form of light—is created much farther from the black hole than…
The team used Brookhaven's giant atom smasher, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or RHIC, to ram charged gold particles into each other billions of times,…
“We have, in effect, found a flaw in the forensic methods used until now,” says Else Starkenburg, lead author of the paper reporting the study. “Our improved…
Some classes of molecules are capable of arranging themselves in specific patterns on surfaces. This ability to self-organize is crucial for many technological…
The Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany, has developed a new process that permits…
The Nanox SOFC is a room temperature fuel cell in which nano-structured oxides such as YSZ (yttria stabilized zirconia) or SDC (samaria doped ceria) are used…
The Phase Change ROM is based on the invention that in amorphous GaOx crystallization of Ga2O3 causes a jump in the electrical conductivity of more than 7…
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