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…
With its Galileo navigation system, the European Union intends to become independent of America’s GPS (Global Positioning System). Now the Mobile and…
Research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), involved a two year study of front line children’s services in five local authorities in…
Found in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, 30 Doradus is one of the largest massive star forming regions close to the Milky Way. Enormous stars in 30 Doradus,…
The government has today announced the funding to help establish a new Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing at the University of Adelaide from next…
The multiple images are a result of gravitational lensing by a foreground galaxy, an effect that was predicted by Albert Einstein as a consequence of his…
Scientists call these rivulets “gravity fingers,” and the explanation for their formation has to do with the surface tension where the water—or any…
If the moon Europa is tilted on its axis even slightly as it orbits the giant planet Jupiter, then Jupiter's gravitational pull could be creating powerful…
The world has gone digital in just about everything we do. Almost every iota of information we access these days is stored in some kind of digital form and…
Today W3C announces a new standard that will help Web designers and developers create sites that better meet the needs of users with disabilities and older…
Virtual organisations are entering the real world thanks to the work of the SIMDAT project, which leveraged the power of grids to seamlessly and securely…
Allowing end users to access and play copyright-protected multimedia files downloaded onto their devices, and transfer the files between devices – PCs,…
This free access to 20 additional major databases and journal archives will be possible due to new national licenses funded by the Deutsche…
When the University of Chicago’s David Mazziotti talks about chemistry, perhaps he is thinking about how the behavior of all of the electrons in a molecule can…
The task of analyzing the internal structure of biological cells is a relatively complex affair. When using an electron microscope, the whole cells first have…
Scientists propose that groundwater had a greater role in shaping the martian surface than previously believed, and may have sheltered primitive life forms as…
David Kipping, whose work is funded by the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), has found that such moons can be revealed by looking at…
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