It’s getting hot out here

1 Getting Hot

We review the current status of the ’Parker hypothesis’ which suggests that the solar corona is heated by a multitude of small flare-like events called nanoflares. Space-born coronal imagers such as SXT, EIT or TRACE have allowed to test Parker’s hypothesis observationally. Combining the results from different authors it seems that we are close to falsifying the hypothesis, i.e. there are not e...

Getting the Hot Structures

The recent advances in levitation methods for materials processing now enable structural, thermo-physical property, and phase transition studies to be made on high temperature solids and liquids without container contamination. These studies have led to new insights into the liquid state and have revealed how local order in the liquid can dictate phase formation. In this article, levitation tec...

Getting from here to there.

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Getting from Here to There

Getting Out of Control

While driving along a desert highway, we can easily predict the consequences of turning the wheel and changing lanes. However, in heavy traffic this is not the case. Traffic dynamics is complex and the response to any individual change depends on how the other drivers accommodate it [1]. This type of cooperative dynamics in complex systems makes controlling them a scientific and technological c...