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…
Mark Twain famously invested, and then lost, a fortune on the first typewriter, in 1874. Since then, human-computer interaction has moved beyond basic…
In our business area Mobile Knowledge we develop systems and technologies for knowledge and information transfer in the users' normal work or leisure time…
The My Space/Facebook phenomenon has shown how we love to share personal information. But will we take the next step and share our feelings and emotions across…
The loss of a CD by HM Revenue & Customs in November 2007 containing personal and financial details of over 7 million families claiming child benefit was…
It's late on Saturday night. Hundreds of revellers empty out of the bars and restaurants in town and call for cabs to get home. But can the taxi firm meet such…
The Southampton Transient Oxygen and Radiation Monitor (STORM) instrument is destined for the International Space Station where it will be used in an…
Herschel’s telescope, which will carry the largest mirror ever flown in space, has just been delivered to ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre,…
Purinergic receptors have been in the focus of drug discovery for many years. This invention provides nonnucleotide
agonists of the P2Y11-receptor. The…
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…
These novel rhodium complexes were tested on breast cancer (MCF-7) and colon cancer (HT-29) cell lines and exhibit cytotoxicities of up to 100 times higher…
The invention refers to a new multipole resonance probe. The probe has a spherical symmetry which forces the resonance modes to correspond to the spatially…
At yesterday’s International Solid State Circuit Conference, Holst Centre – founded by the Belgian nanoelectronics research center IMEC and the Dutch research…
Under the agreement, the organisations will exchange staff for work on specific projects of mutual interest with the goal of sharing and furthering the…
The holographic displays – which are viewed without special eyewear – are the first updatable three-dimensional displays with memory ever to be developed,…
The traditional method of teaching music is based on verbal feedback from the teacher and relatively short teacher-pupil contact. New technologies provide…
Major research network grids across the EU are often developed independently from each other, using different types of software and hardware, making it…
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