Scientists from The Open University (OU) have discovered a process that could explain the long-debated mystery of how land features on Mars are formed in the absence of significant amounts of water...
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New findings may lead to a theory of how superconductivity initiates at the atomic level, a key step in understanding how to harness the potential of materials that could provide lossless energy storage, levitating trains and ultra-fast supercomputers.
Professors Hawthorn and Gingras and team have experimentally shown that electron clouds in superconducting m...
Read MoreIt may offer an inexpensive new way to generate a freely movable microplasma, as well as yield insights into fundamental physics questions. It surprisingly also creates a mini light show, with the droplet sparking as it floats above a faint blue glowing gap. It is similar to Leidenfrost levitation — in which droplets dance on a hot vapor cushion. But by creating the vapor with a strong jolt of electricity instead of heat, the researchers found they could ionize the gas into a plasma that glowed a soft blue light.
“This method is probably an easy and original way to make a plasma,” said Cedric Poulain, a physicist at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission...
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