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…
Gandalf – the research project, not the fabled wizard – has developed groundbreaking technology to boost existing dsl data rates a thousand-fold and wifi by up…
Hiding a message within a chaotic transmission offers a way of securing information exchange – provided the message can be distinguished from the chaos by the…
The advent of many- and multi-core processor computing architectures will make it possible to deliver enormous computational power on a single chip, with…
The internet, Web 1.0, is so incredibly powerful that even now, almost 20 years later, we have only begun to explore its potential. Web 2.0, with its YouTube,…
When a technology is developing as rapidly as radio frequency identification (RFID) with the active participation of a huge range of industry sectors worldwide…
We have all experienced the effect of Moore's Law: almost from the second you unpack a newly purchased computer it is already outdated. The next model – with…
BepiColombo, a mission to make the most comprehensive study of Mercury ever, is due for launch in August 2013. It is the first dual mission to Mercury, with…
The latest country to join the International Year of Astronomy 2009 initiative is the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. This is a particularly welcome addition…
Cosmic strings are predicted by high energy physics theories, including superstring theory. This is based on the idea that particles are not just little…
The researchers' findings reveal a previously unknown mathematical relationship between the different arrangements that interacting particles can take while…
The amidine group is an essential component of many pharmacologically active agents. However, in general pharmaceutical compositions with one or more amidine…
The procedure, described today in the journal Optics Express, cuts the production time of hollow-core optical fibres from around a week to a single day,…
New extrusion based process for the production of biofuel pellets, no more expensive preliminary drying of material is needed. Freshly harvested biomass with a…
Dare is the UK’s premier competition for young computer games designers, attracting students and recent graduates from all over the world in 2007.Turner…
The results were obtained by the OMEGA Visible and Infrared Mineralogical Mapping Spectrometer instrument on board ESA’s Mars Express. Mars is not entirely a…
“Just add water!” said Robert Minchin, an Arecibo astronomer on the project, who explained that methanimine and hydrogen cyanide are two of the basic…
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