Powerful Solar Flare Could Ignite Northern Lights as Lunar Eclipse Unfolds
Something powerful is unfolding above us this week. A powerful eruption from the sun is now racing through…
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…
NASA’s IXPE uncovers hidden magnetic structure in a pulsar nebula
For nearly two decades, astronomers have suspected that the Lighthouse Nebula, an elegant, needle-thin structure stretching across space,…
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…
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…
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…
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…