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…
Sandia National Laboratories is also in on the carbon nanotube game, with research led by physicist François Léonard. Léonard has considerable experience in…
Talk about a diet! By resolving, for the first time, features of an individual star in a neighbouring galaxy, ESO's VLT has allowed astronomers to determine…
As a consequence of the new launch date, the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite is currently undergoing final flight…
Today marks the 10th anniversary since First Light with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), the most advanced optical telescope in the world. Since then, the VLT…
The first one, Eta Carinae, has the shape of a 'little man' and surrounds a star doomed to explode within the next 100 000 years. The second image features a…
This previously unobserved phenomenon has just beeen described in an article in the scientific journal Nature Photonics.- We have discovered a method for…
In order to attain exact and reliable results, the emissivity of the measured surface has to be known. It can only be determined precisely in complex measuring…
Thermally stable materials play an important role in dimensional metrology and in precision manufacturing. The currently highest requirements on the thermal…
Magnetic nanoparticles (with a size of some few to several hundred nanometres) are a new, promising means of fighting cancer. The particles serve as a carrier…
Scientists at the University of Göttingen generated polyklonal and monoclonal antibodies against the new diagnostic tumor marker PIWIL2. The tumor marker…
Scientists at the Georg-August-University generated monoclonal antibodies which specifically react with beta2-adrenergic receptor (b2AR) on human leukocytes…
The energy of ions impacting surfaces during plasma processing is crucial in determining both
the properties of materials being deposited by plasmas and for…
The future of fundamental physics research lies in observing the early universe and developing models that explain the new data obtained. The availability of…
In this new filter, which has been developed in a German university, the nanoparticles are evenly deposited. This is possible by using a finer basic material,…
According to this innovation SiO2-enriched additives are given to the binder containing compound. The carbon is then being oxidised inside of the sample, no…
In this process the clearance between the layers is being stabilised by a net of fine bridges, the pores of foamed ceramics. The layers can now be very thin…
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