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…
Chang’e-1 represents the first step in the Chinese ambition to land robotic explorers on the Moon before 2020. Chang’e-1 has four mission goals to accomplish….
“This unique research project will enable us to view features of the Sun that we've never seen before,” says Michael Knölker, director of NCAR's High Altitude…
The results not only stake out new territory on the nuclear landscape, but also suggest that variants of everyday elements might exist that are heavier than…
Where multiple document format specifications exist, the French experts have shown that a convergence is feasible between OOXML and the ODF format – the latter…
Michael Boivin, a Michigan State University associate professor of neurology and ophthalmology and of psychiatry, and Bruno Giordani, a University of Michigan…
The launch of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), which carries supplies to the International Space Station, will require multiple firings of the Ariane 5…
Use by the University’s researchers has grown considerably in this time and has saved local researchers years of time in processing their results. As an NGS…
The launch of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), which carries supplies to the International Space Station, will require multiple firings of the Ariane 5…
“The theory we operated with for the last decade was that single-star black holes are formed from the remnants of massive stars — the more massive the star,…
When NASA Mars Program officials and members of the Mars science community gather in California next week to pare down the list of candidate landing sites for…
In a major feat of nanotechnology engineering researchers from Harvard University have demonstrated a laser with a wide-range of potential applications in…
There is currently a 60-percent chance that weather at the launch site will delay today's launch. Weather conditions are expected to improve slightly on…
For example, if a conventional automated object identifier has labeled a person, a tennis racket, a tennis court and a lemon in a photo, the new…
After passing Mars in April 2007, Rosetta is now approaching Earth for the second time – the third of four planetary swing-bys that provide fuel-saving…
Although there was no formal ceremony to mark the occasion, the hatch closure is an important milestone for all involved. “This means we are 99% ready for…
Free Flow Electrophoresis (FFE) systems allow researchers to reduce the complexity of samples and enrich low abundant proteins with very high reproducibility….
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