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Powerful solar winds squish Jupiter's magnetic field 'like a giant squash ball'
"The solar wind squished Jupiter’s magnetic shield like a giant squash ball," O'Donoghue said. "This created a super-hot ...
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The Extraordinary Reason Why Scientists Are Collecting Sea Turtle Tears
Martin told me she would army crawl up to the turtles on the sand and dab around their eyes with a foam swab, soaking up the goopy tears they exude. Sea turtles regularly shed tears as a way to expel ...
The Bermuda Triangle of Space: The Mysterious Zone Where Satellites Fail and Astronauts Fear to Tread
Satellites passing through this area often experience malfunctions, with systems crashing, data corruption, and equipment ...
Astronauts' safety at risk? NASA worried about anomaly in Earth's magnetic field
The SAA has been described as a ‘dent’ or ‘pothole’ in Earth's magnetic field by NASA. The agency said that it ‘can cause big ...
Auroras Are Spotted on Neptune for the First Time, and Lead to a New Mystery
The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...
World's smallest untethered flying robot is just under one centimeter tall
UC Berkeley's flying robot has two unusual features: it is probably the smallest in the world and is powered and controlled ...
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Physicists Catch a Quantum Butterfly Spreading Its Wings
In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm ...
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World’s smallest: Bee-mimicking flying robot uses magnets to aid in search, rescue
A team at UC Berkeley has developed the world’s smallest wireless flying robot, inspired by bumblebees. Weighing just 21 ...