Rosetta spacecraft detects unexpected ultraviolet aurora at a comet
At Earth, auroras are formed when charged particles from the Sun follow our planet's magnetic field lines to the north and south poles. There, solar particles...
Promising computer simulations for stellarator plasmas
The turbulence model called Gyrokinetic Electromagnetic Numerical Experiment (GENE), developed at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) at Garching, Germany, has proven to...
Chemists develop ‘smart cells’ with potential to treat illness at cellular level
New research by an international team of chemists describes a new type of artificial cell that can communicate with other cells within the body—with...
Carbon nanotubes developed for super efficient desalination
Membrane separations have become critical to human existence, with no better example than water purification. As water scarcity becomes more common and communities start...
Scientists find a new mechanism for the stabilization of skyrmions
Tiny magnetic whirls that can occur in materials—so-called skyrmions—hold high promises for novel electronic devices or magnetic memory in which they are used as...
Why there is no speed limit in the superfluid universe
Physicists from Lancaster University have established why objects moving through superfluid helium-3 lack a speed limit in a continuation of earlier Lancaster research.
Helium-3 is...
Like humans, chimpanzees can suffer for life if orphaned before adulthood
Researchers observed three chimpanzee communities of the Tai National Park. They kept full demographic records and collected fecal samples to conduct paternity tests on...
VLBA makes first direct distance measurement to magnetar
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have made the first direct geometric measurement of the distance to a magnetar...
Botanists unearth new ‘vampire plant’ in UK carpark
Scientists Dr. Chris Thorogood at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, and Dr. Fred Rumsey at London's Natural History Museum have just described a...
Astronomers capture stellar winds in unprecedented detail
Astronomers have presented an explanation for the shapes of planetary nebulae. The discovery is based on a set of observations of stellar winds around...
Supercooled water is a stable liquid, scientists show for the first time
Supercooled water is really two liquids in one. That's the conclusion reached by a research team at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest...
