The movement of molten metals in Earth's outer core generates a vast magnetic field that protects the planet from potentially harmful space weather. Throughout Earth's history, the structure of the magnetic field has fluctuated. ...
Earth Sciences
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4.5 billion years ago in the violent, high-speed environment of the early solar system, a protoplanet roughly the size of Mars was involved in a series of fierce collisions with other large planetary bodies.
Space Exploration
Jun 22, 2017
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Someday, microscopic robots could perform useful functions, such as diagnostic testing in lab-on-a-chip sensors, micropatterning surfaces or repairing equipment in tight spaces. But first, scientists need to be able to tightly ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 4, 2020
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Spin-waves are promising candidates for future information processing schemes as there is almost no frictional heating in magnetic transport. Information encoding, however, is only possible in spin-wave packets. A group of ...
General Physics
Apr 5, 2016
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An international team of researchers from multiple institutions, including INRS, is shedding light on the mystery of matter accretion in young stars. Published in the November 1, 2017 Science Advances online journal, their ...
Astronomy
Nov 3, 2017
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Four years ago, an international team (USA, Japan and Europe) carried out an unprecedented suborbital space experiment called CLASP-1, motivated by theoretical investigations carried out at the IAC by Javier Trujillo Bueno ...
Astronomy
Apr 23, 2019
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Prof. Yan Xiaoli from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Li Qiaoling, a post-doctor from Yunnan University, have determined the bright-magnetic relationship for decaying sunspots for the first time.
Astronomy
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