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…
Microchip design is a tricky business. First, there is a question of functionality. Engineers describe, in minute detail, what a particular microchip must do,…
With today’s computer systems complex and often susceptible to malicious attacks, it is becoming increasingly important to build-in resilience from the outset,…
The study, published online today in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, ran a large number of simulations to predict how strongly the drug…
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, astronomers have probed the inner parts of the disc of material surrounding a young stellar object, witnessing…
Now by analyzing its velocity, light intensity, and for the first time its tell-tale elemental composition, Carnegie astronomers Alceste Bonanos and Mercedes…
String theory – a theory whose fundamental building blocks are tiny one-dimensional filaments called strings – is the leading contender for a “theory of…
Previously, photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) were the only available technology in the short wavelength UV portion of the spectrum capable of single photon…
“We were getting ready for a routine engineering run when all of a sudden the nova went off. It was very bright and easy to observe, so we took this…
With the new reflection-technique created by a Bremen research institute, reflective surfaces can be measured more easily and quickly than before. Changes in…
Assuring stability and linearity of amplifiers in
transmitters is quite inevitable in modern WLAN or
UMTS applications. Presently circuits use large…
Natural and synthetic opioids are effective and widely
used drugs for the treatment of acute, post-operative or
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Phospholipase A2 (PLA2) designates a large and diverse
group of enzymes that cleave phospholipids at the sn-2-
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“Grids for Kids gives children a crash course in grid computing,” explains co-organiser Anna Cook of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project. “We introduce…
The new patented technology invented by the researchers has led to the development of a new product family called “RapidiTTy”. A company – TTE Systems Ltd -…
At the end of 2007 the project received a grant from the European Commission towards a total budget of 20 Mio € for the coming two years. Thomas Rachel,…
How can they do this? What is the key of their amazing cohesion? This is one of the questions the STARFLAG project – Starlings in Flight – aims to answer. The…
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