The dark side of the sun
There were no fireworks on the sun to welcome in the new year, and only a few C-class flares during the last day of 2014. Instead, the sun starts 2015 with an enormous coronal hole near the south pole. Coronal holes are regions of the corona where the magnetic field reaches out into space rather than looping back down onto the surface. Particles moving along those magnetic fields can leave the sun rather than being trapped near the surface. Those trapped particles can heat up and glow. In the parts of the corona where the particles leave the sun, the glow is much dimmer and the coronal hole looks dark.
Business drives Web-scale IT
The era of digital business has arrived, in which successful companies are defined by their ability to respond quickly and effectively to transient business moments. Established approaches to IT infrastructure, operations and software development – still well suited...
Falcon attempts precision landing
Elon Musk’s SpaceX will attempt a precision landing on the next flight of its Falcon 9 first stage. For the first time, the stage will attempt to land on a custom-built ocean platform known as the autonomous spaceport drone ship. While SpaceX has already demonstrated...
Hyperloop will be crowdsourced
Crowdstorming is being used in the development of the Hyperloop system could revolutionise public transport systems. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, powered by JumpStartFund this week announced that it has passed two major milestones, bringing the company...