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…
TRMM rainfall images are false-colored with yellow, green and red areas, which indicate rainfall between 20 and 40 millimeters (.78 to 1.57 inches) per hour.Dark red areas are considered heavy rainfall, as much as 2 inches of rain per hour….
A combination of small satellites can, with innovative methods, use the signals of the navigation satellite systems GPS and Galileo to significantly improve…
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, has returned its first data. One of the seven…
This collective condition is called – named for its intellectual fathers – Bose-Einstein condensate. Physicists at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt…
The flashes, known as gamma ray bursts, are beams of high energy radiation – similar to the radiation emitted by explosions of nuclear weapons – produced by…
Over the last years, there was a tremendous increase in the clinical use of allogenic cord blood (CB) for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Amongst…
The french-german institution for security and defence (ISL) and Saarland University joined their efforts and developed a method to strengthen the structur of…
Chitosan has a broad spectrum of industrial applications ranging from contact lenses and matrices for tissue engineering to immobilisation membranes for…
Method for enhancement of general stress resistance, based on improved reductant supply (NADPH) in the cytosol via Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH). …
We offer a new type of semiconductor quantum-well inter-subband device, with a unique materials combination and sequence with very large energetic separation…
The technology enables the evolutionary upgrading of existing single channel optical ring Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) to wavelength division multiplexing…
Enclosed are new functionally relevant SNPs in the regulatory sequences of the human farnesyltransferase (FNTB)-gene, which encodes for the β-subunit of an…
Nationally known speakers will transport audiences on a quest to find new planets on Sept. 26, journey back in time to see how modern astronomy was really…
The Cooling Storage Ring of Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL-CSR) was completed in 2007, which aims at the exploration of physics with radioactive…
ESA's Planck microwave observatory is the first European mission designed to study the Cosmic Microwave Background – the relic radiation from the Big Bang. Following launch on 14 May, check-outs of the satellite's subsystems were started in parallel with the cool-down of its instruments' detectors. The detectors are looking for variations in the temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background that are about a million times smaller than one degree – this is comparable to measuring from Earth the body heat of a rabbit sitting on the Moon. To achieve this, Planck's detectors must be cooled to extremely low temperatures, some of them being very close to absolute zero (�.15°C, or zero Kelvin, 0K)….
We offer a new type of semiconductor quantum-well inter-subband devices, which can be manufactured with standard GaAs deposition technology. The technology…
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