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 Orion Nebula reveals many of its hidden secrets in a dramatic image taken by ESO’s new VISTA survey telescope. The telescope’s huge field of view can show…
Scientists from the University of Leicester have led an international study to capture space images that are unique to science.Researchers using the NASA/ESA…
The invention concerns a procedure for the prevention and diagnosis of fungal infection of vegetable, especially salad plants. Lettuce rot is a common disease…
Risks related to maritime traffic in the Baltic Sea have been assessed only in areas where a concrete risk of accident has been detected. However, the risk…
A new, more efficient low-cost microring resonator for high speed telecommunications systems has been developed and tested by Professor Roberto Morandotti's…
Modern bio-sensors for medical and environmental applications are required to be highly sensitive and selective as well as small and easy to deploy. The…
A team of European researchers has developed middlewaredesigned to allow any computer running any operating system to simply, efficiently and cost-effectively…
One of the first and most debilitating symptoms of dementia is short-term memory loss, which means care is required for people who are otherwise quite capable…
Magnets that can readily switch their polarity are widely used in the computer industry for data storage, but they present an engineering challenge: A magnet’s…
That early fascination with the heavens led to a vital role in the study of the solar system for Economou, a Senior Scientist in the Enrico Fermi Institute….
“How much energy you can put into a particle per meter corresponds directly to how big the machine is,” says Steven Sibener, the Carl William Eisendrath…
To save water and particullarly to save energy is widely accepted to be a requirement not only for the industry but also for private households. The amount of…
Using the invention, virtually no force is exerted on the abrasive layer during a dressing process. Combined with the small dimensions of the wire electrode…
Princeton University's Jason Petta has discovered how to do just that — demonstrating a method that alters the properties of a lone electron without…
The technique can be used by comparatively small telescopes on the ground, making exoplanet chemistry more widely accessible than ever before. First…
Using lasers and nanoparticles, scientists at Rice University have discovered a new technique for singling out individual diseased cells and destroying them…
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