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 innovation from a German university provides a shielded homogeneous magnetic field, especially suited for the transport of spin-polarized gases or…
On Friday 24th August at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam, Dr Jonathan Horner will present a study of the impact hazard posed to Earth by the…
Dr Joop Houtkooper of the University of Giessen, Germany, believes that the subfreezing, arid Martian surface could be home to organisms whose cells are filled…
The data collected by AKARI, a JAXA mission with ESA participation, complements that from JAXA’s asteroid explorer Hayabusa in late April this year. As AKARI…
As Uranus coasts through a brief window of time when its rings are edge-on to Earth – a view of the planet we get only once every 42 years – astronomers…
Europe's flagship ground-based astronomical facility, the ESO VLT, has been equipped with a new 'eye' to study the Universe. Working in the near-infrared, the…
Writing in Inderscience's Journal of Design Research, the team explains how the new technology, with further industrial development, could eventually make vast…
Scientists at the University of Göttingen developed a transfectant RBL-C5aR cell line which is able to express more than 1 million C5a receptors on its cell…
Scientists of the University of Göttingen developed many different transfectant RBL-celllines which are overexpressing different Chemokine receptors like CCR5,…
With Sky in Google Earth, you can travel across the vastness of the night sky, making tour stops at 125 of the most popular Hubble images. Though these…
In science and industry today, computing and data resources are often widely distributed across different systems, sites or even countries. To make effective…
Mode-locked evanescent lasers can deliver stable short pulses of laser light that are useful for many optical applications, including high-speed data…
Dr Stamatios “Tom” Krimigis, the Principal Investigator for the instrument, who is presenting images at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam on…
In December 2006, a series of solar flares produced in a single active region were observed from three different points, each approximately 120 degrees apart….
The combination of high resolution data from SMART-1's AMIE micro-camera and data from the US Clementine mission is helping scientists determine the tectonics…
Research published next week in the Institute of Physics' Journal of Neural Engineering suggests that we could soon be able to diagnose the onset of many brain…
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