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…
“Most of the photons in the Universe are in the wavelength range that ALMA will receive, and ALMA will give us our first high-resolution views at these…
“Structures built from a very large number of units can exhibit sharp transitions from one state to another state, which physicists call phase transitions,”…
“That's the instantaneous intensity we can produce,” said Karl Krushelnick, a physics and engineering professor. “I don't know of another place in the universe…
Quantum mechanics is the set of physical theories that explain the behavior of matter and energy at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It includes a…
Tiny particles called quarks and gluons are the building blocks for larger particles such as protons and neutrons, which in turn form atoms. However, quarks…
The present protected technology concerns a procedure as well as a device for standard biological wastewater treatment and for membrane bioreactor (MBR)…
The manifold biological importance of small RNA-fragments has only been recognized in the last years: they have important regulatory and catalytic functions…
The over-subscribed funding round also involved existing shareholders, including founding investor and chairman, Dr Phil O’Donovan, and Create Partners. New…
In an article appearing in the February 14th issue of the journal Nature, Rasmus Voss of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and…
A team including researchers at RIKEN’s Discovery Research Institute in Wako and the University of Tokyo has observed a burst of high-energy gamma radiation…
This marks the first discovery of another system of planets that has striking similarities with our Solar System. Moreover, it suggests that such giant planets…
Proteins are molecules which play a central role in biological processes, and form the basis of all living tissues. When a foreign material, such as a medical…
The International Space Station (ISS), the largest international space project of all time, orbits the Earth at an altitude of 400 km where the effects of the…
A key area of cooperation under consideration is a mission to understand the Moon’s structure, listen for ‘Moonquakes’ and trial the lunar cell-phone network…
For the first time, researcher Peter Eshuis of the University of Twente in The Netherlands shows this phenomenon in granular matter using a high speed camera….
The find suggests that our galaxy hosts many planetary systems like our own, said Scott Gaudi, assistant professor of astronomy at Ohio State University.He and…
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