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…
Take the beryllium dimer, a seemingly simple molecule made up of two atoms that University of Delaware physicists Krzysztof Szalewicz and Konrad Patkowski and…
“We completely take cell phones for granted,” said Sheila Hemami, Cornell professor of electrical and computer engineering, who leads the research with Eve…
BirdsEye, a new application for the iPhone and the iPod touch, is now available. Using content from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Academy of Natural…
Although a theory developed years ago describes what the explosion of such an enormous star should look like, no one had actually observed one – until now. An…
The amount of exquisite detail seen in this portrait, which beautifully reveals the life of a large family of stars, is due to the Multi-conjugate Adaptive…
This invention, by the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering in Bornim, Potsdam, features a machine for separating, classifying and purifying natural…
Why it matters: The neural processing involved in visually recognizing even the simplest object in a natural environment is profound—and profoundly difficult…
With an estimated mass of 10 – 40 times Jupiter's mass, GJ 758 B is either a giant planet or a lightweight brown dwarf. Its orbit is somewhat larger than…
The demonstration, described in the latest issue of the journal Nature, not only paves the way for exploring the complex natural phenomena involving charged…
Faculty and students from Louisiana Tech University are playing an important role in what has been described as “the most complex and comprehensive science…
An international team of scientists that includes an astronomer from Princeton University has made the first direct observation of a planet-like object…
The results are particularly attractive for infrared countermeasure, a way of misguiding incoming missiles to protect commercial and military aircrafts. The…
A better understanding of these properties is fundamental to the development of “spintronics,” electronic devices that will use electron spin, a characteristic…
The new IMPRS “Precision Tests of Fundamental Symmetries” is organised by the departments of Prof. Klaus Blaum, Prof. Werner Hofmann and Prof. Manfred Lindner…
For the first time, physicists have used laser light to create “synthetic magnetism,” an exotic condition in which neutral atoms suddenly begin to behave as if…
The iPhone can be used for complete control of the laser system, independent of the location. The range of application extends from monitoring laser parameters…
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