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,…