News articles tagged with 'disk'
Mini disks for data storage
— 14 Mar 2011 20:33 | TechnologyTiny magnets organise themselves in vortices in the researchers' mini disks. The individual magnets can twist either in a clockwise or a counterclockwise direction in the disk. These…
Capasso lab demonstrates highly unidirectional 'whispering gallery' microlasers
— 14 Dec 2010 20:21 | TechnologyUtilising a century-old phenomenon discovered in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, applied scientists at Harvard University have demonstrated, for the first time, highly collimated unidirectional…
Enigmatic star devours companion, possibly pregnant with second-generation planets
— 15 Sep 2010 11:21 | AstronomyAn astronomer may have caught a cannibalistic star in the act of devouring a companion and making a second generation of exoplanets from the resulting orbiting disk…
Meet the titans: Dust disk found around massive star
— 15 Jul 2010 15:10 | AstronomyA new discovery has the potential to answer the long-standing question of how massive stars are born - and hints at the possibility that planets could form around the galaxy's biggest…
Nano-sized light mill drives micro-sized disk
— 7 Jul 2010 12:39 | TechnologyWhile those wonderful light sabers in the Star Wars films remain the figment of George Lucas' fertile imagination, light mills - rotary motors driven by light - that can power objects…
A new look into the Whirlpool Galaxy
— 11 Jun 2010 12:30 | AstronomyThe Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) is a classic, a real must that now gets into Calar Alto Documentary Photo Gallery with this impressive photo obtained with the Zeiss 1.23 m reflector. The…
Bursting 'bubbles' the origin of galactic gas clouds
— 28 May 2010 12:45 | AstronomyResearchers using CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia have explained the origins of hydrogen gas clouds in the galaxy…
How galaxies came to be: Astronomers explain Hubble sequence
— 13 Jan 2010 12:30 | AstronomyFor the first time, two astronomers have explained the diversity of galaxy shapes seen in the universe. The scientists, Dr Andrew Benson of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)…
Radio telescope images reveal planet-forming disk orbiting twin suns
— 11 Jun 2009 12:53 | AstronomyAstronomers are announcing today that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian's Submillimetre Array (SMA) clearly reveals the presence of a rotating molecular disk orbiting…
Beating the back-up blues
— 3 Apr 2009 14:33 | TechnologyThat sinking feeling when your hard disk starts screeching and you haven't backed up your holiday photos is a step closer to becoming a thing of the past thanks to research into a new…