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…
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…
Upgraded ‘Severe’ Northern Lights Alert For 25 States Thursday
The forecast for this week’s northern lights display has been significantly upgraded, with NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center…
Scientists locate source of mysterious radio signals after 20 year search: A vampire star and its victim
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Scientists Took a Look Inside Earth’s Core—and Made a Surprising Discovery
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study shows a dramatic reversal of flow…
Earth’s molten outer core is behaving in chaotic, unexpected ways
Earth’s molten outer core is critical to life on our planet. Churning some 2,900 kilometers beneath the surface,…
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…
Scientists Found a Surprising State of Matter That’s Breaking Dimensional Rules
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Long-Standing Muon Mystery May Be Settled
A new high-precision calculation of a key component underpinning the magnetic moment of the muon, a heavier cousin…
A Clever Software Patch Gave This Ice Satellite a Wild New Trick
On January 18, the Sun released a powerful eruption of high-energy particles that reached Earth in a jiff.…