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Solar 'climate change' could cause rougher space weather

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research shows that the space age has coincided with a period of unusually high solar activity, called a grand maximum. Isotopes in ice sheets and tree rings tell us that this grand ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Novel connector uses magnets for leak-free microfluidic devices

Like other users of microfluidic systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology researcher Javier Atencia was faced with an annoying engineering problem: how to simply, reliably and most of all, tightly, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Contracts Awarded for Production of NSLS-II Storage Ring Magnets

(PhysOrg.com) -- All seven contracts for the production of the NSLS-II storage ring magnets have now been awarded -- a significant milestone for the project. The magnets -- 750 in total -- will be made by vendors in the United ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Enceladus plume is a new kind of plasma laboratory

(Phys.org) -- Recent findings from NASA's Cassini mission reveal that Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus provides a special laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma, or hot ionized gas. In these recent ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Electric Moon jolts the solar wind

(Phys.org) -- With the Moon as the most prominent object in the night sky and a major source of an invisible pull that creates ocean tides, many ancient cultures thought it could also affect our health or ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineered materials: Custom-made magnets

A novel approach to designing artificial materials could enable magnetic devices with a wider range of properties than those now available. An international team of researchers have now extended the properties ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Is a classical electrodynamics law incompatible with special relativity?

(Phys.org) -- The laws of classical electromagnetism that were developed in the 19th century are the same laws that scientists use today. They include Maxwell’s four equations along with the Lorentz la ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 45 | with audio podcast feature

Cassini reveals details about charged 'nanograins' near Enceladus

(Phys.org) -- It was a call that Rice University physicist Tom Hill had waited more than 20 years to receive. It traveled almost a billion miles to reach him. And the message — once it arrived from NASA’s ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The ultimate babysitter? iPads for infants stir debate

Twenty-two-month-old George sits on a tiny blue chair, at a baby-sized desk, playing with a grown-up toy -- an iPad, sign of a powerful trend that has set alarm bells ringing among child development experts.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 6

Creating nanostructures from the bottom up

Microscopic particles are being coaxed by Duke University engineers to assemble themselves into larger crystalline structures by the use of varying concentrations of microscopic particles and magnetic fields.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Uranus auroras glimpsed from Earth

(Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have captured images of auroras above the giant ice planet Uranus, finding further evidence of just how peculiar a world that distant planet is. Detected by means ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

IBEX and TWINS join forces to observe a solar storm

(Phys.org) -- On April 5, 2010, the sun spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged particles toward the invisible magnetic fields surrounding Earth, known as the magnetosphere. As the particles interacted ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A cannibalistic galaxy with a powerful heart

Observations by the two of the European Space Agency's space observatories have provided a multi-wavelength view of the mysterious galaxy Centaurus A. The new images, from the Herschel Space Observatory and ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 10


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