The ever-present hail of cosmic rays streaming into the Solar System from an outer galaxy may not be what we thought. According to Chang’e 4 on the far side of the Moon, there is a mysterious ‘bag’ of cosmic ray flux between the Earth and the Moon that occurs when the two bodies line up … Read more
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has created a 35.6 tesla supermagnet, which is more than 700,000 times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field, capable of working for more than 200 hours while using less energy, and the system has been installed in Beijing as a shared research tool for quantum materials, superconductors, nuclear molecules. China … Read more
A new concept of missions, recently introduced in 57th Lunar and Planetary Science Conferencepromises to take humanity one step closer to uncovering the frozen secrets of Uranus. Observations by the CASMIUS (Coupled AtmosphereS and Magnetosphere Interactions of the Uranus System) mission could reveal important details about this mysterious planet, which has remained unknown since Voyager … Read more
In central China, the Yangtze River is blocked by an engineering marvel so great that it does nothing but power or flood control. It changes the body the rotation of the planet. The Three Gorges Damcompleted in 2012, it is over 2,300 meters long and 185 meters high. Behind it is 40 cubic kilometers of … Read more
Every year, the World Meteorological Organization, or WMO, tracks a list of key climate indicators – including the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the Earth’s temperature – to assess how global warming is progressing. In their latest report, released last Sunday, the authors decided to include a new dimension: the imbalance of … Read more