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NASA has successfully launched a mission to explore the interactions between the Sun’s and Earth’s magnetic fields. The Tandem Reconnection and Cusp ...

New findings help meteorologists better understand the physical mechanisms driving climate change, particularly the role of ...

A series of events called the Quantum Fringe has enabled everyone from school students and the interested public to ...

New capability could make it easier to generate single pairs of entangled photons on demand using semiconductor quantum dots ...

The space scientist Michele Dougherty from Imperial College London has been appointed the next Astronomer Royal – the first ...

From Bohemian solutions and binary battles to new parameters and novel experiments, the dark matter vs MOND clash rages on ...

Ultraclean monolayer amorphous carbon can be used to generate high-current, low-scattering proton treatment beams ...

Tucked away Illustration showing the position and size of the CONUS+ detector within the reactor in Leibstadt, Switzerland. (Courtesy: MPIK) Evidence of the coherent elastic scattering of reactor ...

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A FEL creates X-rays by the rapid back-and-forth acceleration of fast-moving electron pulses using a series of magnets called an undulator. These X-rays are emitted at a narrow wavelength and then ...

The Butler-Volmer equation is commonly the standard model of electrochemical kinetics. Typically, the effects of applied voltage on the free energies of activation of the forward and backward ...