Space
Sun’s bumpy magnetic fields might explain why its atmosphere is so hot
The best measurements yet of the magnetic fields in the upper layers of the sun have revealed a landscape of lumps and bumps that may help us predict solar flares
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Electromagnetism
Strong nuclear force
Technology
Did a massive nuclear antenna make Michigan鈥檚 trees grow taller?
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Physics
Exotic super magnets could shake up medicine, cosmology and computing
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Space
The universe is 2.5 billion times less magnetic than a fridge magnet
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Space
NASA鈥檚 InSight lander is using magnetism to search for water on Mars
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Physics
Most powerful thunderstorm ever measured produced 1.3 billion volts
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Physics
Inside the Russian factory making the heaviest atoms in the universe
For 118 elements, the trends of the periodic table have held reasonably well. But we might soon make atoms so huge they break all the rules
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Space
Black holes eat negative energy and vomit out huge powerful jets
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Physics
The emptiness of space has a structure we could use to send messages
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Physics
Glass box of atomic vapour could work as a James-Bond-style spy radio
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Physics
鈥業mpossible鈥� EM drive doesn鈥檛 seem to work after all
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