Washington, October 2 : Researchers and students from the University of Michigan in the US will design and build a satellite about the size of a loaf of bread, which will be deployed to study space weather.

Undergraduate and graduate students will be heavily involved in this Radio Aurora Explorer (RAX) project, led by the University of Michigan (U-M) and SRI International, a California-based independent research and technology development organization.

Washington, October 2 : Researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) have developed a new forecasting method to predict clear air turbulence (CAT) that could make flights smoother in the future.

This method would be able to help pilots chart new courses around patches of rough but clear air that can turn a flight dangerous.

“Our new method allows superior forecasts for CAT beyond the tools that have been in use,” said John Knox, an assistant professor in the department of geography in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

Washington, October 2 : Using a powerful radio telescope to peer into the early universe, a team of California astronomers has obtained the first direct measurement of a nascent galaxy’s magnetic field as it appeared 6.5 billion years ago, which has revealed that it is at least 10 times greater than the average value in the Milky Way.

Astronomers believe the magnetic fields within our own Milky Way and other nearby galaxies—which control the rate of star formation and the dynamics of interstellar gas - arose from a slow “dynamo effect.”

In this process, slowly rotating galaxies are thought to have generated magnetic fields that grew very gradually as they evolved over 5 billion to 10 billion years to their current levels.

Washington, October 2: University of Michigan researchers have come up with a system that can enable computer chips to work around all functional bugs, including the ones that have not been detected as yet.

Their idea is to build a virtual fence that prevents a chip from operating in untested configurations.

The researchers say that their approach keeps track of all the configurations Intel processor may encounter, and loads the information onto a minuscule monitor that would be added to each processor.

Recently a ‘biodegradable’ phone has been introduced by Sony Ericson, The phone reportedly will be made of materials like the bio-plastic, recycled plastic keypads, zero charger that has 3.5mW standby power. 

To add more, it will come in an eco-friendly packaging and to reduce paper waste, the manuals would be digital.