Daily non-political popular news in brief.

Team discovers 'throttle' for solar wind

Helium may modulate the speed of solar wind, according to researchers from MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics. The new findings could lead to better understanding of what factors make the solar wind blow, and have impacts on plasma research.

Read more »

Keywords: team, discovers, throttle, solar, wind, discover

« Previous | Next »

Similar news on "Team discovers 'throttle' for solar wind":

1. Team discovers 'throttle' for solar wind
   05-17-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   Helium may modulate the speed of solar wind, according to researchers from MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics. The new findings could lead to better understanding of what factors make the solar wind blow, and have impacts on plasma research.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
2. Dartmouth researchers part of the team to discover similar planetary system to our solar system
   02-14-2008 · EurekAlert!
   Two Dartmouth researchers are part of the team that has discovered a planetary system where the two largest planets are very similar to Jupiter and Saturn, in terms of mass and distance from their host star. The study appears in the Feb. 15 issue of the journal Science.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
3. SECCHI team obtains images of the solar wind at Earth
   12-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Using the Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI) instruments on board NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory spacecraft, a consortium of scientists has seen, for the first time, large waves of solar material sweeping past Earth.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
4. Astonomers discover Jupiter-Saturn-like planet in distant solar system
   02-14-2008 · EurekAlert!
   The simultaneously discovery of two exoplanets smaller than Jupiter and Saturn by an international team of astronomers that includes University of Notre Dame research associate professor of astrophysics David Bennett gives astrophysicists an important clue that solar systems like ours might be quite common.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
5. Astronomers discover scaled-down Jupiter and Saturn in a faraway solar system like our own
   02-14-2008 · EurekAlert!
   An international team of astronomers has discovered two planets that resemble smaller versions of Jupiter and Saturn in a solar system nearly 5,000 light years away. The find suggests that our galaxy hosts many planetary systems like our own, said Scott Gaudi, assistant professor of astronomy at Ohio State University.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
6. International team discovers new solar system with scaled-down versions of Jupiter and Saturn
   02-14-2008 · EurekAlert!
   Harnessing Lawrence Livermore's pioneering work in gravitational microlensing, supercomputer modeling and adaptive optics, scientists have found two planets in a solar system much like our very own.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
7. Washington University scientists analyze solar wind samples from Genesis Mission
   10-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Analyzing the mix of hydrogen, oxygen and noble gases found in the sun can answer one of the biggest questions of the universe: How did our solar system evolve?Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis and a large team of colleagues marked the beginnings of that odyssey by examining samples of solar wind for neon and argon, two abundant noble gases. The work was published in the Oct. 19, 2007, issue of Science.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
8. UGA researchers discover how human body fights off African parasite
   09-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
   A team of researchers led by biochemists at the University of Georgia propose that T. b. brucei actually does infect humans but that the infection triggers release of hemoglobin from red blood cells. Hemoglobin appears to "arm" the human innate immune system by binding to a small fraction of high density lipoprotein (HDL), or "good cholesterol." The hemoglobin-HDL complex then becomes a super toxin and clears the body of trypanosomes.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
9. University of Washington-led team discovers a gene
   12-12-2006 · EurekAlert!
   An international group of researchers has discovered that the mutated form of a gene called Palladin causes familial pancreatic cancer. The findings, published online today, Dec. 12, in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS-Medicine, may help explain why the disease is so deadly. The research project was led by Dr. Teri Brentnall, University of Washington associate professor of medicine, and supported by the Lustgarten Foundation, Canary Foundation and other private sources.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
10. Screaming CMEs Warn of Radiation Storms
    05-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
    Some CMEs also bring intense radiation storms that can disable satellites or cause cancer in unprotected astronauts. As the CME blasts through space, it plows into a slower stream of plasma blown constantly from the sun in all directions, called the solar wind. The CME causes a shock wave in the solar wind. If the shock is strong enough, it accelerates electrically charged particles that make up the solar wind to high speeds, forming the radiation storm.
    Similar news · Read more »