What is the breakthrough in China’s artificial sun project? A 6.5 Tesla magnet
New Delhi: China’s superconducting magnets have passed key tests at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of…
Scientists Broke a 160-Year-Old Law of Physics to Create Programmable Heat
There are certain laws of physics that heat must follow. Take Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation, for example,…
Astronomers Detect Gamma-Ray Burst’s Magnetic Fingerprint
Using NSF’s Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers made the first radio detection of polarized light and Faraday rotation…
Using manganese ferrite nanoparticles to better harness heat against cancer
Scientists have long known that heat can be used to help fight cancer. But heating up tumors and…
Scientists Propose ‘StormWall’ To Stop A $2.4 Trillion Solar Storm
Topline A fleet of spacecraft could one day be used to geoengineer space, fortifying Earth’s magnetic field and…
Multiple superconducting states discovered in Graphene
Recently, condensed matter physicists have been pushing the boundaries of the Golden Rule restrictions on electron pairing. MIT…
Light-activated proteins demonstrate quantum sensing and radio wave control
Until now, quantum sensing has primarily been known from solid-state materials such as diamonds with deliberately introduced tiny…
New analysis reveals why Ganymede has a magnetic field when other moons do not
Ganymede has long looked like a contradiction in orbit. Jupiter’s largest moon is the only moon known to…
Astronomers Detect Clearest Signs Yet of Magnetic Fields on Extrasolar Planets
By tracking fierce winds racing through the atmospheres of seven ultra-hot Jupiters, astronomers have uncovered the strongest evidence…
Pigeons May Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field Using Superparamagnetic Immune Cells in Their Livers
An international research team led by scientists from the University of Bonn, the University Hospital Bonn and the…
New study targets liver as magnetic sensor behind pigeon’s long-range navigation
For decades, researchers have known that homing pigeons can return to their loft from hundreds of miles away…
Fusion Breakthrough? Magnetizing Plasmas with High-Powered Lasers Paves the Way Toward “Direct Drive” Fusion
Promising new fusion research is revealing how plasma can spontaneously generate its magnetic field, in a fundamental breakthrough…