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New Form of Magnetoelectric Effect Discovered

Electricity and magnetism are closely related: Power lines generate a magnetic field, rotating magnets in a generator produce electricity.

15 Sep 2020

Study Reveals Mechanism that Produces Magnetic Field in Plasma

A group of physicists from India and Japan has challenged a 60-year old old notion that the massive magnetic field in a high-intensity laser created plasma that originates from the small, nanoscale in the bulk plasma.

15 Sep 2020

New Quantum Thermometer Senses “Fever” in Live, Microscopic Animals

Quantifying the temperature of objects at a nanoscale has been a challenge for a long time, particularly in live biological specimens, because of the absence of dependable and accurate nanothermometers.

14 Sep 2020

Electrons in the Van Allen Radiation Belts can be Accelerated to Very High Speeds, Study Shows

The Earth's magnetic field is trapping high energy particles. When the first satellites were launched into space, scientists led by James Van Allen unexpectedly discovered the high energy particle radiation regions, which were later named after its discoverer Van Allen Radiation Belts.

11 Sep 2020

New Insights into Cosmic Incidents of Extremely High Energies

The "IceCube" neutrino observatory deep in the ice of the South Pole has already brought spectacular new insights into cosmic incidents of extremely high energies.

11 Sep 2020

New Space Mission to Capture the First-Ever Closeup of Binary Asteroids

The University of Colorado Boulder and Lockheed Martin will soon lead a new space mission to capture the first-ever closeup look at a mysterious class of solar system objects: bin

11 Sep 2020

International Research Team Uncovers Unique Supernova Explosion

One-hundred million light years away from Earth, an unusual supernova is exploding.

11 Sep 2020

Scientists Probe the Validity of "Kibble-Zurek" Mechanism in Two Quantum Annealers

It is established that matter can transition between different phases when certain parameters, such as temperature, are changed.

11 Sep 2020

Galaxy Clusters Contain More Small-Scale Dark Matter Gravitational Lenses than Expected

The gravitational pull of cold dark matter in galaxy clusters can distort or bend the light coming from distant background galaxies, in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.

11 Sep 2020

Gravitational Tugs by Jupiter's Moons Could Account for More Warming

Jupiter's moons are hot. Well, hotter than they should be, for being so far from the sun. In a process called tidal heating, gravitational tugs from Jupiter's moons and the planet itself stretch and squish the moons enough to warm them.

11 Sep 2020