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…
A new University of Reading study has shown that ‘expanding targets’ of this kind, which grow to twice their original size and provide a much larger area to…
The ecosystem will integrate national supercomputer centres (Tier-1), and leadership-class European HPC centres (Tier-0), as planned by the Partnership for…
These dust-lofting whirlwinds had been expected in the area, but none had been detected in earlier Phoenix images.The Surface Stereo Imager camera on Phoenix…
The Cre/lox system constitutes a method for the site-directed recombination of nucleic acids, in which the enzyme Cre-recombinase achieves recombination of DNA…
The study, conducted by researchers in the RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas, demonstrated RFID’s usefulness in several shoplifting scenarios,…
WHAT: Public Lecture: From the Big Bang to Dark Matter – Turning on the Large Hadron ColliderWHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m.WHERE: Physics-Atmospheric…
Detection of the optical flash from the gamma-ray burst coming simultaneously with gamma-rays by small telescopes, Pi of the Sky, TORTORA and RAPTOR provides…
Astronomers from around the world combined data from ground- and space-based telescopes to paint a detailed portrait of the brightest explosion ever seen. The…
Only a hot stellar core remains in the form of a white dwarf; the rest of the star is dispersed into the interstellar medium, enriching it with chemically…
The heavy particle is scarce today, but scientists believe it was abundant soon after the Big Bang. “This discovery helps us understand how matter was formed…
These include: what is the universe made of and how does it evolve? Are we alone in the universe? How do galaxies, stars and planets form and evolve? What are…
The chosen source for that sample is from the “Snow White” trench on the eastern end of the work area reachable with Phoenix's robotic arm. In July that trench…
The key to fabricating the sensors involves slightly diluting samples of a well-known semiconductor material, called indium antimonide, which is valued for its…
The invention presented here enables every user of a multimedia mobile communication device (mobile phone, for example) to act as a TV reporter. For example,…
Up to now, mobile multimedia applications were limited to TV reception on mobile phones (Mobile TV). The invention presented here enables mobile phone users to…
“Steins looks like a diamond in the sky,” said Uwe Keller, Principal Investigator for the OSIRIS imaging system from the Max Planck Institut Fuer…
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