China's ‘Artificial Sun’ Tokamak Reactor Sets New World Record for Sustained Nuclear Plasma Reaction

Medicine & Technology Jun 08, 2021

China, through its "artificial sun" tokamak reactor just set a new world record for sustained plasma reaction.

Milky Way Galaxy Picture: Violent 'Downtown' Shown in NASA's New Stunning Cosmic Image

May 29, 2021

"Downtown" space is just about 25,800 light-years away, a short hop in cosmic distances. A light year is the number of years that light travels, in this case to reach the Earth.

Saturn's Special Magnetic Field and Helium Rain May Explain Gas Giant's Origin

May 07, 2021

The recent discovery of abundant helium in Saturn's structure may answer questions about the origins of gaseous planets in and out of our solar system.

Forget Google Maps! Sharks Use Earth's Magnetic Fields to Travel from South Africa to Australia

May 07, 2021

Biologists have long believed that sharks rely on magnetic sensing to migrate across oceans. Someone finally figured out how to prove it.

Did NASA Just Discover a Magnetic Field in Sun’s Chromosphere? New Strategy Used For Calculation

Feb 21, 2021

NASA has peered into the chromosphere to return multi-height measurements of its magnetic field. The sun's magnetic fields give rise to different eruptions in its outer atmosphere.

Venus Flytraps Generate Magnetic Fields When Eating, Physicists Said

Feb 05, 2021

Physicists are using an atomic magnetometer to measure the magnetic field that Venus flytraps produce when they are eating.

Scientists Discovered Plasmoids in Uranus From Voyager 2's Data From 30 Years Ago

Dec 29, 2020

Thirty years ago, Voyager 2 made a flyby on Uranus which sent valuable data back to Earth. But it was not only recently that scientists discovered that there are plasmoids in Uranus, an indication that its atmosphere is being stripped away.

New Adhesive Stimulated by Magnetic Field

Dec 23, 2020

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have recently developed a new approach to cure adhesives with a magnetic field.

Here’s How Sea Turtles Remember Their Natal Beach

Dec 10, 2020

Countless years and miles after they're hatched, mature turtles then go back to where they were born to mate and produce their own offspring.

Moon Used To Share Magnetic Field With Earth, Protecting Our Atmosphere

Oct 19, 2020

Earth's magnetic field causes the beautifully colored aurorae in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

There's a Dent in Earth's Magnetic Field, What Could This Mean for Satellites?

Aug 17, 2020

NASA is tracking a dent in Earth's magnetic field, an unusually weak spot in the field called the South Atlantic Anomaly, which allows harmful particles from the sun from going deeper into the Earth's surface than normal, which could be bad news for the low orbit satellites that pass through it.

Does the Human Brain React to Earth’s Magnetic Field?

Mar 20, 2019

The remnants of ancient human migration traits.

Uranus, a Weird Planet, Has a Weird Magnetic Field

Jun 29, 2017

The way the planet dances with the solar wind makes it even stranger.

Muon Experiments: Heavy Cousins of Electrons Magnetic Field Behavior, Providing New Particles Existence

Jun 09, 2017

Researchers will be put into trial the muon g-2 experiment to explore on new physics regarding the existence of new particles for energy.

Scientists Are Getting Puzzled After The First Close Look Of Jupiter's Surface

May 30, 2017

Jupiter has fascinated sky-gazers for millennia but it wasn’t until probes are sent to the planet that scientists began to unravel its deepest secrets. Now, new scientific data from Juno, the most recent spacecraft to rendezvous with the gas giant, shows that Jupiter has many more secrets still.