Since the early 1970s, orbiting satellites have picked up on noise-like plasma waves very close to the Earth's magnetic field equator. This "equatorial noise," as it was then named, seemed to be an unruly mess of electric ...
Space Exploration
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Fast-moving magnetic waves emanating from a distant supermassive black hole undulate like a whip whose handle is being shaken by a giant hand, according to a new study using data from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's ...
Astronomy
Jul 10, 2015
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Yet it has the potential for numerous applications. In Physical Review Letters, scientists at Jülich together with their international partners present a new concept that uses short-pulse lasers to expand the capabilities ...
General Physics
Jun 23, 2015
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Scientists in the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle accelerator exploring nuclear physics and the building blocks of matter at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National ...
General Physics
Jun 8, 2015
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Phonons—the elemental particles that transmit both heat and sound—have magnetic properties, according to a landmark study supported by Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) services and recently published by a researcher group ...
General Physics
May 28, 2015
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The underlying physical process that creates striking "breaking wave" cloud patterns in our atmosphere also frequently opens the gates to high-energy solar wind plasma that perturbs Earth's magnetic field, or magnetosphere, ...
Space Exploration
May 11, 2015
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Researchers at The Ohio State University have discovered how to control heat with a magnetic field.
General Physics
Mar 23, 2015
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The first ever landing of a man-made probe onto a comet has been named Physics World Breakthrough of the Year for 2014.
General Physics
Dec 12, 2014
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A team of New York University and University of Barcelona physicists has developed a method to control the movements occurring within magnetic materials, which are used to store and carry information. The breakthrough could ...
Nanophysics
Nov 17, 2014
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Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have achieved a milestone in modern wireless and cellular telecommunications, creating a radically smaller, more efficient radio wave ...
General Physics
Nov 10, 2014
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