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…
Their findings were published online in the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. The article was selected for inclusion in the Institute of Physics’ IOP…
The SUNRISE balloon-borne telescope, a collaborative project between the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau and partners in…
Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres – however there is a bit…
Fangzhen Teng, assistant professor of geosciences at the University of Arkansas, and Wei Yang and Hong-Fu Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences report their…
The Council’s vote came after it received a report from a committee of eminent scientists who reviewed the existing statement in response to a petition…
In celebration of this International Year of Astronomy, NASA is releasing images of the galactic center region as seen by its Great Observatories to more than…
Malaysia has the second highest rate of lighting and thunder occurences (about 280 days a year) after Florida at over 300 days a year. The imapct results in…
University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU) researcher, Ms Maider Huarte Arrayago, focused her PhD on systems for electronic voting by Internet. The work, entitled…
If you forget your password when logging into an e-mail or online shopping Web site, the site will likely ask you a security question: What is your mother’s…
A number of U.S. states now use facial recognition technology when issuing drivers licenses. Similar methods are also used to grant access to buildings and to…
The findings show that “stellar nurseries” within the first galaxies gave birth to stars at a much more rapid rate than previously expected, the researchers…
“Intermediate-mass black holes contain between 100 and 10,000 times the sun's mass,” explained Tod Strohmayer, an astrophysicist at Goddard. “We observe the…
The fins are made not of silicon, like conventional transistors, but from a material called indium-gallium-arsenide. Called finFETs, for fin…
Content of the invention is the non-invasive, reference-free determination of ultrasonic propagation speed in solid bodies, liquids and mixes with point…
Content of the invention is the simultaneous determination of layer thickness and sonic speed in liquid and solid media, without the knowledge of their sonic…
The main invention content is the electro chemical process and the respective technical equipment for the determination of the total organic carbon (TOC) in…
Feedback
