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Extreme solar conditions caused the Earth’s radiation belts to shrink temporarily, yielding an opportunity to investigate particle acceleration in those regions.
Data on the reflection of seismic waves reveal chambers of frozen magma below the Earth's crust, supporting the theory that the crust was generated by multiple magmatic bodies.
Electromagnetic fluctuations within the heart of a controlled magnetic reconnection experiment could provide an explanation for the unusual rates observed, and provide another piece in the puzzle of how magnetic fields couple to plasmas.
For two atoms to react they must first collide. The use of light to control collisions between ultracold atoms provides a potentially useful tool for studying chemical reactions.
Discovery of a distinct class of plasma vortex at the cusps of the Earth's magnetosphere provides new insight into the nature of turbulence in magnetized plasmas.
Quantum physics is full of counterintuitive twists, but a proposed concept in quantum information theory could help to relieve some of the perplexities.
Honeybees can be trained to locate landmines with an accuracy of better than 97.5%. Tracking them with laser-based radar could provide a fast and effective means of clearing the world’s minefields.
The orbits of extrasolar planets have greater eccentricities than those of Solar System planets. Could this be attributed to the effects of stellar jets and winds?
Neutrinos originating from inside the Earth have at last been detected — a landmark discovery that will lead to a deeper understanding of the radioactive make-up of our planet, and of its overall heat budget.