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…
Stressed out? Time to take a break? It will not be long before our clothing gives us the answer. In the EU’s CONTEXT project, companies and research institutes…
Today’s information-rich, wireless world depends on microwave amplifiers that operate efficiently and linearly at high power and high frequencies, so it is…
This phenomenon was previously only known from inorganic materials and is crucially important for future production of a new generation of semi-conductor…
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An EU project led by the University of Bonn wants to drive this key technology forward even further. Among its partners from all over Europe there are also…
However, detecting them isn't so easy.Enter Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists, who discovered a new physical phenomenon that enables them to…
Results from testing this sample will be compared in coming days to the results from the first Martian soil analyzed by the wet chemistry laboratory two weeks…
Utilizing nanomanufacturing processes, the researchers were able to develop an optical microlens with a step-like surface, instead of a smooth surface, that…
No queueing at the check-out, no hectic digging for your purse, no repacking of items from the trolley into the bags you have brought with you. How much your…
Such may be the case with the results of new experimental research on collisions between a single hydrogen atom and a lone molecule of deuterium—the smallest…
At the termination shock the solar wind, which continuously expands outward from the sun at over a million miles per hour, is abruptly slowed to a subsonic…
Researchers at McGill University's Department of Physics – along with colleagues from several countries – have confirmed a long-held prediction of Albert…
Taking advantage of a unique cosmic coincidence, astronomers have measured an effect predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity in the…
“We now know more about what Mercury's made of than ever before,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, a professor in the departments of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space…
NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley,…
Eclipses in a unique system of two dead stars, called pulsars, has shown that one of the pair is ‘wobbling’ in space – just like a spinning top. The effect,…
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