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…
The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously…
“Here we have this very bright burst, yet it's surrounded by darkness on all sides,” says Brad Cenko of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,…
The colour Sudoku adds another dimension to solving the puzzle by assigning a colour to each digit. Squares containing a digit are coloured according to the…
Pilot trials show that the resulting e-services can reduce bureaucracy, identify fraud and deliver optimised services to citizens.A few years ago Norbert…
Effective on-line services need websites that are easy for users to navigate, and can cater for visitors with disabilities. Widespread internet access is…
It draws inspiration from hard sciences like physics and engineering, social sciences like psychology and musicology, and the creative arts. Digital musical…
People who come to work in the EU from America or Asia may find they have to rebuild their credit records before they can buy a car or a house. EU citizens…
The 'Decision' (DEvelopment of CIvil protection Satellite communication services: enhancing Interoperability during deployments Outside Europe – also referred…
Some scientists predict that an operational system of routine, global forecasts of air pollution near the ground, where it affects human health, is only a few…
MIT will lead a $375-million mission to map the moon's interior and reconstruct its thermal history, NASA announced this week.The Gravity Recovery And Interior…
The research activities of the CIEMAT are intimately related to the experimental program at the CERN (The European laboratory for Nuclear Research at Geneva in…
The RAS does however welcome the announcement by the Secretary of State at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, John Denham, that he is…
Scientists believe ultracold polar molecules will allow them to create exotic artificial crystals and stable quantum computers.”The neat thing about this…
New observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate the rings of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the age of the dinosaurs, instead may have been…
Swapping data between media like this would allow information to be captured and retained for very brief intervals. Data could be stored within pockets of…
The AIDS disease effects over 40 million people worldwide. Certain drugs have the ability to reduce patient viral loads and improve patient health by binding…
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