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 search for volcanoes is a long-running thread in the exploration of Venus. “Volcanoes are a key part of a climate system,” says Fred Taylor, a Venus…
This week, University Putra Malaysia's team unveiled their latest inventions and products at the 34th International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques…
This week, University Putra Malaysia's team unveiled their latest inventions and products at the 34th International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques…
A modern computer contains two different types of components: magnetic components, which perform memory functions, and semiconductor components, which perform…
Advances in interfaces — the physical way we react with computers — and other techniques of controlling computers will supplement the role of the traditional…
This week, University Putra Malaysia's team unveiled their latest inventions and products at the 34th International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques…
Lauded and criticised for offering a possible way out of the dangers of man made climate change, UK TV Channel 4's programme “The Great Global Warming…
Conventional laminated glass panes can not be called
connected in a shear compound because of their creeping
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The HiPer-Screw allows a significant increase of extruder
output for a given screw diameter, simultaneously
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The CoAxial Extruder is an extruder with an independently
controlled feeding screw. This additional feeding screw
…
The hydroforming method generates precise structural
shapes by expanding a metallic, usually tubular, moulding
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The research, led by LLNL atmospheric scientist Govindasamy Bala, appears in the April 1 edition of the Journal of Climate.The researchers used the Community…
Under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD 12), by this fall most federal employees and contractors will be using federally approved PIV cards to…
If you want your e-mails to be read and the Internet links included in them opened, you have to pay attention to design. Design pays off! Recipients are more…
However timing irregularities in the signals from even one machine—a difference of only a tenth of a second from the expected—can result in havoc for…
Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file.The music, a 20-second…