The Earth’s magnetic field permanently protects us from the charged particles and radiation that originate in the Sun. This shield is produced by the geodynamo, the rapid motion of huge quantities of liquid iron alloy in the Earth’s outer core...
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New research shows electronic densities measured in these superconductors are a combination of 2 separate effects. As a result, a new model suggests the existence of 2 coexisting states, rather than competing ones as was postulated for the past 30 years. A small revolution in the world of superconductivity.
A superconducting material is a material that, below a certain temperature, loses all electrical resistance...
Read MoreNearly 4B years ago, life arose on Earth. Life appeared because our planet had a rocky surface, liquid water, and a blanketing atmosphere. But life thrived thanks to another necessary ingredient: the presence of a protective magnetic field...
Read MoreA new Sandia National Laboratories accelerator called Thor is expected to be 40X more efficient than Sandia’s Z machine, the world’s largest and most powerful pulsed-power accelerator, in generating pressures to study materials under extreme conditions.”Thor’s magnetic field will reach about one million atmospheres, about the pressures at Earth’s core,” said David Reisman, lead theoretical physicist.
Though unable to match Z’s 5 million atmospheres, the completed Thor will be smaller—2,000 rather than 10,000 square feet—and will be considerably more efficient due to design improvements that use hundre...
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