This article was originally published in dialogue. The publication contributed this article to Space.com Expert Voices: Columns and Insights. Amy Lane is an assistant professor of physics at the University …
Illustration of pulse tube refrigerator. Image credit: S. Kelley/NIST By improving a refrigerator commonly used in research and industry, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have …
LHAASO has discovered a super cosmic ray accelerator in a gamma-ray bubble in the Cygnus region, marking significant progress in understanding cosmic rays with energies above 10 PeV and their …
More metals will be needed to build all the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries and other technologies needed to combat climate change. Mining these metals from the earth …
Every culture has a story about the apocalypse: the end of time. In Norse mythology, the world will end in a battle called the “Epic Battle.” Ragnarok, fighting the gods …
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a new strategy for seeking to generate electricity from fusion: combining two existing plasma management methods …
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare on February 21, 2024, as shown by the bright flash in the upper left corner. Subsets of extreme ultraviolet …
London – Japan expected to start from space Next year, two years after American engineers achieved a similar feat, the company will fly to Earth. The development marks a major …
Steve Nadis is the author of Discover Magazines and Staff Writers Quanta. Qiu Chengtong is a professor of mathematics at Tsinghua University and an honorary professor at Harvard University. Winner …
a) Schematic diagram of optical interference between two light beams originating from the same point in the emitting pn junction (horizontal black line) in a thin film LEC device, the …