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…
During his visit to ESO's Very Large Telescope at Paranal, the European Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potocnik, participated in an observing…
The most energetic particles in the universe – ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays – likely come from supermassive black holes in the hearts of nearby active…
The simple adaptation, based on a method of measurement currently used in nano-electronics, could also give STMs significant new capabilities — including the…
Thanks to new research led by The University of Western Ontario, scientists will now have a better understanding of ozone, its origin and the role – good or…
A day before the Foton-M3 spacecraft returned to Earth, a small re-entry capsule, named Fotino, was to be released from the end of a 30 km tether, the longest…
The device, nanofabricated with the help of electron beam lithography, functions at extremely low temperatures of less than one degree above absolute zero. The…
This month’s Earth swing-by is Rosetta’s third major step on its 10-year journey to 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The trajectory correction manoeuvre…
Using the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, the largest cosmic-ray observatory in the world, a team of scientists from 17 countries found that the sources…
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In a joint communiqué signed November 7, 2007, representatives of the partner countries have announced the go-ahead for construction of the international…
The LHC’s cryogenic system has the task of cooling some 36 800 tonnes of material to a temperature of just 1.9 degrees above absolute zero (–271.3°C), colder…
A team of American astronomers announced today (Tuesday, Nov. 6) the discovery of a record-breaking fifth planet around the nearby star 55 Cancri, making it…
“Nature plays the tricks that it knows how to play over and over again,” said Nagel, the Stein Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in Physics at Chicago….
And with DNA sequencing getting cheaper, scientists will be data mining possibly hundreds of thousands of personal human genome databases, each of 50 gigabytes.
A new mathematical program developed in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Haifa will enable computers to “know” if the artwork you are…
Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan say it doesn't have to be that way. They've developed a new technology to automate “post-silicon…
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