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…
This clears the way for a much simpler realization of the building blocks of a (future) super-fast quantum computer. The scientists will publish their work in…
Make way for the real nanopod and make room in the Guinness World Records. A team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley…
The RIT team has, for the first time, observed the vertical launch of rotating winds from glowing disks of gas, known as accretion disks, surrounding…
In the case of inverse engineering, however, the path to be followed is exactly the reverse: the object or the part that physically exists ends up transformed…
The £2.25 Million Novars Research Centre will also bring composers and traditional musicians into contact with the cutting edge technology. Some of the world’s…
Dr Kieron O' Hara at the University's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) presented a paper entitled Digital Divides and Web Science at the Lisbon…
The research, published on Thursday November 1 in the Institute of Physics’ Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, discusses how pulses from an infrared laser…
A University of Leicester astrophysicist is playing a pivotal role in a mission that seeks to study the origins of the universe.Professor Martin Turner of the…
Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies is a compilation of astronomical photographs using the Palomar 200-inch Hale and the 48-inch Samuel Oschin telescopes.The…
A research paper published in the Institute of Physics’ Nanotechnology details how engineers from the Centre for Advanced Materials Technology at the…
The results will be reported in two papers in the 1st November issue of Nature.Although the papers deal with two entirely different types of objects, newly…
You are having the time of your life: skiing, visiting a picturesque village or attending an interesting conference or concert. It's so great that you would…
In the coming months, more than 30 scientists, engineers and other experts from 10 European countries will not only discuss ways of measuring human emotions,…
The birth secret of buckyballs — hollow spheres of carbon no wider than a strand of DNA — has been caught on tape by researchers at Sandia National…
The massive, growing black holes, discovered by NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes, represent a large fraction of a long-sought missing population of…
The mission was launched on 24 October 2007 at 10:05 UTC (12:05 CEST) from Launch Pad 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in south-west China's Sichuan…
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