Highlight Results from Ulysses

Current sheets from Ulysses observation

Current sheet is a significant source of solar wind MHD turbulence intermittency. It has long been recognized that these structures can arise from non-linear interactions of MHD turbulence. Alternatively, they may also be relic structures in the solar wind that have a solar origin, e.g., magnetic walls of flux tubes that separate solar wind plasma into distinct parcels. Identifying these struct...

Results of the Ulysses Fast Latitude Scan: Magnetic Field Observations

The rapid crossing of the solar equatorial region by Ulysses as it returned from the south pole resulted in 7 crossings of the heliospheric current sheet between 10“S and 20”N and 10 distinct solar wind interaction regions between 18“S and 22”N. Both the extent of the current sheet and the latitude interval containing the interaction regions are a f~ctor of= 2 less than were observed by Ulysses...

The Ulysses fast latitude scans: COSPIN/KET results

Ulysses, launched in October 1990, began its second out-of-ecliptic orbit in December 1997, and its second fast latitude scan in September 2000. In contrast to the first fast latitude scan in 1994/1995, during the second fast latitude scan solar activity was close to maximum. The solar magnetic field reversed its polarity around July 2000. While the first latitude scan mainly gave a snapshot of...

Highlight from recent cancer literature

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School evaluated the effects of a combinatorial strategy involving the oncolytic herpes simplex virus (oHSV) G47驻 and the alkylating agent temozolomide (TMZ) on glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs). They found that combination of these agents synergistically killed GSCs and in mouse models of GSC­derived glioblastoma. The median surviv...

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