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…
Integrated circuits, assemblies of transistors that are the building blocks for all electronic devices, currently use electrons to ferry the signals needed for…
The Top500 List was announced today during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. The Blue Gene/P – known as Intrepid and located at…
What makes a human different from a chimp? Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute [EMBL-EBI] have come…
However the system, which was meant to allow them to share medical information across a network, highlighted the limits of computer ‘understanding’. Unlike…
Using space technology developed for ESA for the special ground penetration radar GINGER (Guidance and Into-the-Ground Exploration Radar) that will be mounted…
This technology, researcher adds, is open and interoperable, and therefore it is very appropriate to be integrated in existing systems, such as web sites.Users…
This discovery supports the implication of Einstein's relativity theory that black holes of all sizes have similar properties, and will be useful for…
The study, which is published in the June 19 issue of the journal Nature, suggests that one of the stars formed significantly earlier than its twin. Because…
“It must be ice,” said Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith of The University of Arizona, Tucson. “These little clumps completely disappearing over the…
The dosemeters used to measure beta radiation have been subjected to an annual quality control by the PTB for six years now. Since then, all dosimeter models…
The increasing sophistication and incessant morphing of cyber-attacks lend importance to the concept of intrusion tolerance: a system must fend off, or at…
A National Science Foundation grant of almost $300,000 is allowing associate professor of operations research Shane Henderson, assistant professor of…
Australia’s Victorian Premier John Brumby today announced a $100 million (AUD) initiative to build the world’s largest life sciences supercomputer facility to…
These are just two of a long list of other possible applications in the business world. In the final project review, concluded in August 2007, experts from a…
Compared with the traditional messaging system, which is vulnerable in failure situations, the new self- healing, resilient messaging platform is markedly more…
We are accustomed to seeing robots programmed to carry out a concrete task such as the robotic arms well known in industry. What is surprising is to see a…
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