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…
Arizona State University researchers and scientists have created two new features for Google Earth 5.0, the popular online application that lets users tour…
True muonium was first theorized more than 50 years ago, but until now no one had uncovered an unambiguous method by which it could be created and observed. “We don't usually work in this area, but one day we were idly talking about how experimentalists could create exotic states of matter,” says SLAC theorist Stanley Brodsky, who worked with Arizona State's Richard Lebed on the result. “As our conversation progressed, we realized 'Gee…we just figured out how to make true muonium.'”…
The strange object known as SCP 06F6 was first noted in 2006 by supernovae researchers in the US taking images with the Hubble Space Telescope, seeing it…
Prof. Schütze of Saarland University and his employees developed a method for fast detection and identification of gases and gas mixtures after the power-up of…
Physics professors Alexey Bezryadin and Paul Goldbart led the team, with graduate student Mitrabhanu Sahu performing the bulk of the measurements. Their…
Operators will always be online thanks to an iPhone attached to their protective clothing. This is the vision of researchers from Chalmers, the Volvo Group,…
At the IEEE Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop in Rome, Italy, on May 25, computer scientists from the Jacobs School of Engineering presented a paper…
The universe is very large and our understanding of it very small. Despite the straitened U.S. economy and a crisis of confidence in other countries, there is…
A novel method of reconstructing missing data will shed new light on how and why our climate moved us on from ice ages to warmer periods as researchers will be…
The monoclonal antibody 473HD reacts with a glycosaminoglycan epitop selectively expressed on radial gliacytes of which a subpopulation shows stem cell…
The novel LIDAR (“light detection and ranging”) system could have applications from precision manufacturing lines on Earth to maintaining networks of…
Since the early 1990s astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets orbiting stars other than our sun, nearly all of them gas giants like Jupiter. Powerful…
“A 'pale blue dot' is the best picture we will get of an Earth-like extrasolar world using even the most advanced telescopes planned for the next couple…
Astronomers have discovered a unique double-star system that represents a “missing link” stage in what they believe is the birth process of the most…
For the first time, researchers have observed a singular cosmic act of rebirth: the transformation of an ordinary, slow-rotating pulsar into a superfast…
Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his theoretical explanation in 1905 of the so-called photo-effect — that is, the emission of electrons from a…
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