This measurement led to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped regions of high-energy electrons and ions encircling the planet. Scientists believe that the inner ...

The South Atlantic Anomaly represents a region within near-Earth space characterized by a significantly weaker geomagnetic ...

Tiny magnetic "flowers" engineered by physicist Anna Palau are redefining how we manipulate magnetic fields. These ...

A flower-shaped structure only a few micrometers in size made of a nickel-iron alloy can concentrate and locally enhance ...

But new research published in Nature Communications shows that lightning bolts can cause streams of ultra-fast electrons to rain down from the inner radiation belt. Most people are familiar with ...

Ongoing cross-checks at the Tevatron experiment reinforce its 2022 measurement of the mass of the W boson, which stands seven ...

PUNCH isn't the only spacecraft studying the solar corona and the transition into the solar wind. NASA's Parker Solar Probe regularly flies closer to the sun than any other spacecraft has gone before; ...

There are moments in the history of human thought when a simple realization transforms our understanding of reality. A moment ...

University of Queensland scientists have cracked a long-standing puzzle in nuclear physics, showing that nuclear polarization ...

It’s a given that anyone who has been 'initiated' into the etymologies of science would know that the universe, at the beginning of time, was a blaze of radiation, too hot for any atoms to survive.