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Electrons Mimic Presence of Magnetic Field

Saturday, February 14th, 2009 - 10:09:15 - Anuradha Menon

An international team of scientists led by a Princeton University group recently discovered that on the surface of certain materials collective...

Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field
Thursday, January 1st, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in the Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything...

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Leaks Found in Earth's Magnetic Shield

Thursday, December 18th, 2008 - 14:37:46 - Anuradha Menon

Earth's magnetic field, which shields our planet from particles streaming outward from the Sun, often develops two holes that allow the largest...

Dancing Atoms Now Understood

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 - 10:29:11 - Anuradha Menon

In developing a model to explain the motion of atoms in a magnetic field, scientists have overcome a decades-old obstacle to understanding a key...

Fly to Mars With Spaceship Force Field

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 - 12:54:29 - Anuradha Menon

According to the international space agencies, 'Space Weather' is the single greatest obstacle to deep space travel. Radiation from the sun and...

Hubble to be Installed with Unique Camera

Friday, October 3rd, 2008 - 14:53:16 - Anuradha Menon

Wide Field Camera 3, a new camera for the Hubble Space Telescope, to be installed by astronauts during the upcoming space shuttle servicing mission...

Magnetic Field In Distant Galaxy Detected

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 - 09:44:26 - Ehud Rattner

Using a powerful radio telescope to peer into the early universe, a team of California astronomers has obtained the first direct measurement of a...

Paper Chips and Disposable Electronics
Friday, August 15th, 2008 - Anuradha Menon
Scientists from Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal have developed the world’s first paper based transistor. More...

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A Superfluid-Superconductor Relationship

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 - 20:53:51 - Anuradha Menon

Scientists have studied superconductors and superfluids for decades. Now, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have drawn the first...

Voyager 2 Finds Lopsided Solar System

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 - 18:47:52 - Ehud Rattner

Hurtling through space 31 years after its launch, the Voyager 2 spacecraft has sent back the most detailed view yet of the shock wave that marks the...

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