A precious metal used everywhere from car exhaust systems to fuel cells, platinum is an incredibly efficient catalyst—but it's costly and carbon-intensive. Now, a serendipitous collaboration between ...

Jupiter isn’t alone in this category; Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are also gas giants, though Uranus and Neptune are often ...

Abstract: This article presents the design, construction, and experimental testing of a strong field (≈0.1-1 T) fan-spine magnetic null point topology. Upcoming studies of 3-D magnetic reconnection in ...

It is possible to make a material emit more radiation than it absorbs, violating the laws of physics in a way that could make ...

Researchers at ETH have used nuclear magnetic resonance to find out what other atoms are bound to the platinum atoms in a single-atom catalyst and where they are spatially located. The precise ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

In April 2023, an unexpectedly strong solar storm caught scientists and the world by surprise. On April 23, Earth was struck ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it ...

The research team has identified atacamite as a material with magnetocaloric properties. Natural crystals have long ...

There's a magnet in a secure room in central Tokyo. It's an electromagnet, the kind that generates a magnetic field when ...