Oxford team makes world’s first plasma ‘fireballs’ in CERN experiment
In a world first, plasma “fireballs” have been created in the lab setting using the Super Proton Synchrotron…
A Giant Magnetic Anomaly Over 500 Million Years Ago Can Finally Be Explained
Magnetic signatures hidden inside rocks tell us a lot about Earth’s magnetic field and the way continents and…
ESA’s Swarm spots a fast-growing anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field
A representation of the South Atlantic Anomaly in 2025 (Image source: Finlay, C.C. et al., 2025; cropped) Using…
Something Weird Is Happening to Earth’s Magnetic Field
The weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field, a region over the South Atlantic where the field’s strength is…
China Just Created the World’s Most Powerful Magnet and It Could Be Useful In Fusion
Chinese scientists set world record with magnetic field 700,000 times Earth’s. Credit: ASIPP In Hefei, China, physicists switched…
Chinese scientists set world record with magnetic field 700,000 times Earth’s-Xinhua
Researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) record experiment data in Hefei, east…
Physicists Discover a New Equilibrium State in Magnetic Fields and Plasma
What do solar flares, lab-grown plasma, and a nebula 25,000 light-years away have in common? A cosmic twist,…
Scientists Discover That Our Solar System’s Biggest Planet Was Once Much Larger, Playing A Huge Part In The Creation Of Other Planets » TwistedSifter
Kevin M. Gill/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS With a diameter of 88,846 miles at its equator, Jupiter is the biggest planet in…
Forecasting Space Weather With the Power of X-Ray Vision
Earth wears a magnetic cloak called the magnetosphere, which shields us from the constant stream of charged particles…
The most accurate atomic clock to date
After two decades of tinkering, scientists at NIST have unveiled the world’s most accurate atomic clock, a glowing…
NASA’s TRACERS mission to track space weather
Way up in space, the Sun isn’t just glowing, it’s throwing. Fast-moving particles slam into Earth’s upper atmosphere,…