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…
Scientists at JILA have found one possible way to solve the blinking problem and have induced quantum dots to emit photons (the smallest particles of light)…
However important these liquid/solid boundaries may be, conventional methods cannot measure basic mechanical properties of these interfaces in their natural…
It will enable scientists to study atoms within materials in a way that has never before been possible and will pave the way for pioneering research relating…
The £80 million shortfall in the Science and Technology Facilities (STFC) budget has resulted in a delivery plan that will lead to job losses at universities…
By employing a new technique – based on the same principle as police speed-measuring radar guns – to satellite radar data, scientists can now obtain…
A giant perturbation occurred amongst its clouds and two extremely bright storms erupted in the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere, where its most…
The image data was obtained on 13 April 2007 during orbit 4199, with a ground resolution of approximately 13 m/pixel. The Sun illuminates the scene from the…
The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the most powerful camera to orbit another planet, can see 20-inch-diameter features while flying at…
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Rice University have created the darkest material ever made by man. The material, a thin coating comprised…
“We have beam down the column,” announced Uli Dahmen of Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, who is head of NCEM and director of DOE's collaborative…
Carbon nanotubes are attractive candidates for use as the active elements in the next generation of electronic devices. However, it has proven incredibly…
The underlying invention offers a solution to improve the preconditions of the use of blood plasma as a substitute or exchange of volume. For this blood plasma…
The e-Infrastructures Reflection Group Support Programme 2 (e-IRGSP2) aims to provide means and resources for the progression of the work performed by the…
The committee that wrote the report identified research needs and gaps based on presentations made by international experts and discussion sessions with…
The invention consists of an electrochemical measuring cell with redox mediators for measuring very low concentrations. Nevertheless, by means of designing…
Ubiquitous computing, in the traditional sense, is based on the vision of making the computers invisible, Kyng suggests. “The problem is that when the…
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