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Scientists Use Van Allen Probes Mission to Understand Dynamics of Plasma Waves

Space is not empty, nor is it silent. While technically a vacuum, space nonetheless contains energetic charged particles, governed by magnetic and electric fields, and it behaves unlike anything we experience on Earth.

18 Jul 2017

NASA-Funded Planet 9 Citizen Science Project Identifies New Brown Dwarf

One night three months ago, Rosa Castro finished her dinner, opened her laptop, and uncovered a novel object that was neither planet nor star.

18 Jul 2017

EPFL Scientists Experimentally Realize New Quantum Many Body State in a 2D Material

Many physical phenomena can be modeled with relatively simple math. But, in the quantum world there are a vast number of intriguing phenomena that emerge from the interactions of multiple particles -- "many bodies" - which are notoriously difficult to model and simulate, even with powerful computers.

18 Jul 2017

Ion Temperature of One Hundred Million Degrees Generated for First Time in Helical Plasma

In order to achieve burning plasma, it is necessary to steadily maintain high-temperature and high-density plasma.

17 Jul 2017

New Technique for Aligning Molecules Uses Lasers and Ultra-Cold Helium Droplets

Chemical reactions necessarily involve molecules coming together, and the way they interact can depend on how they are aligned relative to each other.

17 Jul 2017

LHCb Experiment Reports Observation of New Particle with Two Charm Quarks

At the EPS Conference on High Energy Physics in Venice, last week, the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has reported the observation of Ξ_cc^(++) (Xicc++) a new particle containing two charm quarks and one up quark.

17 Jul 2017

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Identifies Barred Spirals in Lynx

Discovered by British astronomer William Herschel over 200 years ago, NGC 2500 lies about 30 million light-years away in the northern constellation of Lynx.

17 Jul 2017

Scientists Generate First High-Energy Shock Waves in Laboratory Setting

Throughout the universe, supersonic shock waves propel cosmic rays and supernova particles to velocities near the speed of light.

17 Jul 2017

Researchers Use Comprehensive Computer Simulation to Investigate Complex Gas Motion in the Milky Way

How does the gas in the centre of the Milky Way behave? Researchers from Heidelberg University, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Oxford, recently investigated the motion of gas clouds in a comprehensive computer simulation.

14 Jul 2017

Machine Learning Method Could Help Physicists to Analyze Plasma Behavior within Tokamaks

Machine learning, which lets researchers determine if two processes are causally linked without revealing how, could help stabilize the plasma within doughnut-shaped fusion devices known as tokamaks.

14 Jul 2017