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…
Frozen water, safe soil, images of treadmarks in red, granular soil: almost every day brings new test results or stunning photographs from the Phoenix…
Our results give us, for the first time, the possibility to understand the interaction between just two electrons placed next to each other in a carbon…
The robotic arm on Phoenix used the blade on its scoop to make 50 scrapes in the icy layer buried under subsurface soil. The robotic arm then heaped the…
The invention is a model of human expectations an judgments respectively. When you show some humans the probabilities of some constituent facts and you ask…
Researchers: Sabira Khatun and Borhanuddin Mohd. AliThe present invention relates to Internet Protocol version six (IPv6) as a wireless network infrastructure….
According to the Department of Trade and Industry there are 4.5 million businesses in the UK of which 99.3% are small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs),…
This finding, announced at a workshop last month,* has attracted considerable interest because of its implications for future manufacturing. If the…
July’s edition of Physics World includes an in-depth feature by three Israeli researchers, Marianna Khorzov and David Andelman, from the School of Physics and…
Surprisingly enough, these so-called super atoms (clusters of 13 silver atoms, for example) behave in the same way as individual atoms and have opened up a…
Engineers working in optical communications bear more than a passing resemblance to dreamers chasing rainbows.They may not wish literally to capture all the…
But, according to UC Santa Barbara Physics Professor Steve Giddings, it's pure fiction.Giddings has co-authored a paper, “Astrophysical implications of…
In order to calibrate the network analysers (which is necessary before each measurement is made), mechanical or electronic calibration kits are employed. The…
Extreme heat, dry conditions and strong winds quickly spread the fire in the cities of Mykland and Froland in the southern county of Aust-Agder, dampening…
SOHO’s record-breaking discovery was made late on 25 June. When it comes to comet catching, the SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory has one big advantage over…
In reality, they are the sounds that accompany the aurora. Now ESA’s Cluster mission is showing scientists how to understand this emission and, in the future,…
Canada is building the world's first space telescope designed to detect and track asteroids as well as satellites. Called NEOSSat (Near Earth Object…
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