A Giant Weak Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Spreading and Scientists Are Worried
A weak spot in Earth’s protective magnetic field is growing larger and exposing orbiting satellites and astronauts to…
Oxford team makes world’s first plasma ‘fireballs’ in CERN experiment
In a world first, plasma “fireballs” have been created in the lab setting using the Super Proton Synchrotron…
Something Weird Is Happening to Earth’s Magnetic Field
The weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field, a region over the South Atlantic where the field’s strength is…
China Just Created the World’s Most Powerful Magnet and It Could Be Useful In Fusion
Chinese scientists set world record with magnetic field 700,000 times Earth’s. Credit: ASIPP In Hefei, China, physicists switched…
Chinese scientists set world record with magnetic field 700,000 times Earth’s-Xinhua
Researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) record experiment data in Hefei, east…
NASA Is Watching a Huge Anomaly Growing in Earth’s Magnetic Field
For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic…
Astronomers Detect Entirely New Type of Plasma Wave Above Jupiter’s North Pole
Since entering Jupiter’s orbit in 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been hard at work unveiling the many mysteries…