Important breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology

THE QUEST for developing a nuclear fusion reactor has received a boost. In a crucial breakthrough, scientists in a joint project of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Columbia University in the United States successfully tested a novel way of confining plasma at...

Mercury's "Magnetic Tornadoes" and the Big Picture...

Well, it seems that Mercury and Earth aren't so dissimilar after all, at least in terms of their magnetospheric interactions with space. But, I wonder, when does anecdotal evidence cease being anecdotal and...

A Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field

" Dec. 16, 2008: NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to...

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