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…
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have designed and tested an adaptive liquid lens that captures 250 pictures per second and requires…
Europe’s robotics manufacturers lead the world for industrial applications. Meanwhile, the continent’s research institutes and universities are producing some…
Dr Santiago Pérez-Hoyos, of the Planetary Science Group of the University of the Basque Country in Spain, is presenting the findings at the European Planetary…
Dr Gerhard Schmidt from the University of Mainz, Germany, has calculated that about 160 metallic asteroids of about 20 kilometres in diameter would be…
New, very precise measurements have shown that the rotation of the Milky Way is simpler than previously thought. A remarkable result from the most successful…
“The core concept of transmutation – which was formulated as early as mid 20th century – consists of irradiating the actinides by fast neutrons. The highly…
The findings are reported online today in the scientific journal Nature Physics.The Kondo effect, one of the few examples in physics where many particles…
Scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder), have…
A new analysis of dust from the comet Wild 2, collected in 2004 by NASA's Stardust mission, has revealed an oxygen isotope signature that suggests an…
While most personal computers today can process a few hundred thousand calculations per second, computer scientists are laying the groundwork for exascale…
An ontology is a structured set of terms and concepts underpinning the meaning of a subject area. Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation systems…
The PRIMA instrument [1] of the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) recently saw “first light” at its new home atop Cerro Paranal in Chile. When…
The detection of this molecule suggests that a large number of the key components in prebiotic terrestrial chemistry could have been present in the…
The invention relates to a method and a pharmaceutical formation for improving the cellular uptake of nucleic acids, particularly nucleic acid agents.
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A highly efficient gas-phase route for the oxygen functionalization of carbon nanotubes based on nitric acid vapor.Further Information: PDF rubitec -…
Digital images can open our eyes to the most extraordinary detail and beauty. But there is one major drawback. The information in an image is purely visual. It…
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