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WEB19 hours ago — Instead of studying electrons, this latest investigation's setup involved around a million sodium atoms, shuttled into position using lasers, and reduced to an ultracold state. The whole system was then manipulated to get the atoms to zoom around the laser trap. This spinning, combined with other physical forces working on …
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Nearby Dwarf Planet Could Have a Crust That's 90% Water
WEBA dwarf planet thought to have some ice mixed in with its dirty surface may have a lot more cool than we ever expected. Ceres – the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter – could have a crust consisting of more than 90 percent water ice. If this is the case, the heavily cratered and scarred object could have a lot to ...
After a 20-Year Search, Scientists Have Finally Found Earth's True ...
WEBEarth's interior structure consists of a series of concentric layers, from the crust to the core. At the very center, with a radius of about 1,227 kilometers (762 miles) is the inner core – the densest part of our planet, a solid ball mostly composed of iron and nickel, comprising less than 1 percent of Earth's volume.
The Early Universe Could Have Been Full of Very Dark Holes
WEB2 days ago — One such mechanism is a "direct collapse", in which early structures of the unknown, invisible substance known as dark matter confined gas clouds, while background radiation prevented them from forming stars. Instead, they collapsed into black holes. The trouble is that only a minority of dark matter halos grow large enough to form such seeds.
Scientists Figured Out How And When Our Sun Will Die, And It's …
WEBSep 5, 2021 — An international team of astronomers flipped it again in 2018 and found that a planetary nebula is indeed the most likely solar corpse. The Sun is about 4.6 billion years old – gauged on the age of other objects in the Solar System that formed around the same time. Based on observations of other stars, astronomers predict it will reach the ...
A Strong Solar Storm Could Be Heading Our Way. Here's What We …
WEBAug 18, 2022 — In addition, the NOAA SWPC has predicted a potential G3 storm – a strong one. The scale goes all the way up to G5. For mild storms, power grid fluctuations can occur, migratory animals are affected, and some satellite operations can experience minor effects. For moderate storms, voltage alarms and …
One Stage of Sleep Seems to Be Critical For Reducing Dementia Risk
WEB4 days ago — Over-60s are 27 percent more likely to develop dementia if they lose just 1 percent of this deep sleep each year, a 2023 study found. Slow-wave sleep is the third stage of a human 90-minute sleep cycle, lasting about 20–40 minutes. It's the most restful stage, where brain waves and heart rate slow and blood pressure drops.
New Study Shows How Rapidly Earth's Magnetic Field Is Changing
WEBMay 11, 2016 — By Fiona MacDonald. ESA/ATG medialab. New research has shown in the most detail yet how rapidly Earth's magnetic field - which acts like a shield to protect us from harsh solar winds and cosmic radiation - is changing, getting weaker over some parts of the world, and strengthening over others. Although invisible, these changes can have big ...