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…
Organic semiconductors are the technological basis for a multitude of innovative products, such as organic light emitting diodes, solar cells, and many other…
Today, at an international conference, a team of European astronomers announced a remarkable breakthrough in the field of extra-solar planets. Using the HARPS…
It is becoming clear that cars of the future will have to move from using the combination of petrol and a combustion engine in order to combat global warming…
Finding symmetries is a way to highlight shortcuts to answers that, for example, verify the safety of train schedules, identify bugs in software and hardware…
Psychologists at The University of Manchester have teamed up with colleagues in the School of Computer Science to develop the speech and language model using a…
More than 500 participants attended this major Grid event, ranging from Grid experts to representatives from SMEs and large companies interested in learning…
The briefing will take place at the Phoenix Mission Science Operations Center at the UA, will be carried live on NASA TV's Media and Public Channels and will…
In addition to promising better detection of faint objects and improved amplification and positioning of light beams, the researchers’ technique for producing…
Just about everyone knows what happens when you drop Mentos mints into a Diet Coke. Students at Appalachian State University have documented why the reaction…
The research, ‘Acoustic cloaking in two dimensions: a feasible approach’, published today, Friday, 13 June, 2008, in the New Journal of Physics (NJP), builds…
Anderson's hypothesis had been proved indirectly, but the phenomenon had never been directly observed with particles such as atoms or electrons until recently,…
Ulysses has forever changed the way scientists view the Sun and its effect on the surrounding space. The mission’s major results and the legacy it leaves…
For the treatment of the majority of tumors diseases in dogs, only classical procedures by surgical removal of the tumor, radiation and chemotherapy are…
On 7th June 2008, Keio University succeeded in the World’s First Demonstration Experiment with the Help of a Disabled Person To Use Brainwave to Chat and…
Keeping track of visitors at major sporting events is never easy but at this month’s Euro 2008 championship people in the subways will be counted and the…
Nearly all countries have research and education networks, which are separate from commercial telecommunications networks. But most are based on a mishmash of…
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