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…
The excitement centers around a new class of high-temperature superconductors — initially discovered in February and March by Japanese and Chinese researchers…
Phoenix transmitted a 360-degree panorama of its frigid Martian world, freed its nearly 8-foot robotic arm, tested a laser instrument for studying dust and…
The data from the Mars Express Lander Communication system (MELACOM) that tracked Phoenix was received on Earth soon after the Phoenix landing. As Mars Express…
The Fraunhofer IPMS presents an alternative with its “Scanning Photon Microscope”. It works on a similar principle but uses a two-dimensional resonant…
The paper entitled An infrared ring around the magnetar SGR 1900+14 relates to the stellar corpse, called SGR 1900+14, which belongs to a class of objects…
But now, an international scientific team has performed an impressive work of celestial archaeology: they have used the interstellar dust as a look-back mirror…
Now, however, European researchers from the COMET (COnverged MEssaging Technology) project say help is on the way. The researchers aimed at developing and…
The way people use the Internet has changed significantly over the past 10 years, making computers seem to run less efficiently and putting strain on the…
Physicists in recent years have been pursuing a variety of routes to tap electron spins for their potential use in quantum computers that can perform millions…
“This is a marvelous gift,” said Robert Zimmer, President of the University. “A generous family has stepped forward and is making an investment in high-energy…
“The lasers that most people are familiar with emit a narrow beam of light in a fixed direction that has a well-defined wavelength and a predictable power…
“In the early 1990s, scientists around the world initiated studies to assess and devise methods to prevent near-Earth objects from striking Earth,” said Bong…
The dream is to make all new publications simultaneously available in formats such as Braille, large print and audio. This will mean the blind, the partially…
The research could help improve road safety, allowing traffic controllers, police and other services to access up-to-date information from any number of public…
Tasks with high computational requirements, such as tomographic or satellite image reconstruction, combinational problems or computer image recognition would…
The contract was signed today in Berlin on the occasion of the International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA) by Volker Liebig, ESA’s Director of Earth Observation,…
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