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NASA Is Watching a Huge, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field
NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies ...
Space.com1d
X-rays, mushrooms and more: The science riding on SpaceX's Fram2 astronaut mission around Earth's poles
The Fram2 crew will be the first people to observe the polar regions from low Earth orbit, and they'll work on experiments ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN1d
‘Microflower’ structure amplifies magnetic fields 5x, can boost devices’ efficiency
Scientists have developed a tiny flower-shaped structure that’s made of a nickel-iron alloy to concentrate and locally ...
Thermopower-based technique can detect fractional quantum Hall states
If one side of a conducting or semiconducting material is heated while the other remains cool, charge carriers move from the ...
Scientific American2d
Physicists Catch a Quantum Butterfly Spreading Its Wings
In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm ...
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A stargazer’s dream: For the next 2 weeks, NASA will be shooting rockets at the aurora
It’s part of an experiment called “AWESOME,” which seeks to observe how auroras affect Earth’s upper atmosphere.