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What Is a Geomagnetic Storm?
A geomagnetic storm is a prolonged disturbance of Earth's magnetosphere caused by enhanced energy transfer from the solar wind. The most significant storms are often ass…
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How Do Scientists Forecast Auroras?
Aurora forecasts combine measurements of the Sun and solar wind with models of Earth's magnetosphere. Scientists are not predicting a fixed light show at a precise stree…
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What Is a Tokamak?
A tokamak is a doughnut-shaped magnetic-confinement device designed to hold extremely hot plasma using strong magnetic fields so controlled nuclear fusion reactions can…
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How Does a Fusion Reactor Work?
A fusion reactor aims to create a hot plasma in which light nuclei fuse, confine or compress that plasma long enough to release useful energy, then capture the energy in…
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What Is the Higgs Boson?
The Higgs boson is the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, a field that fills space and is central to how elementary particles acquire mass in the Standard Model.
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What Is the Standard Model of Particle Physics?
The Standard Model is the quantum theory that describes known elementary particles and the electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions among them, but it does not incl…
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The most brilliant scientists in history.
Scientists are incredibly important to humanity. Thanks to their inventions and research, the world has developed as it has today.
Scientific application
How to build a mini generator is extremely simple.
A generator is a device that uses alternating magnetic fields to produce electricity.
Space science
On Earth, a compass always points north – but where does it point in space?
On Earth, our planet's magnetic field points north, but in space, things are a bit more complicated.
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'The God Particle': Uncovering the Origin of Matter and Changing the Future of Physics!
Physics is the science that explores the most fundamental laws and structures of nature, and attempts to describe and explain the universe we live in using mathematical…
New technology
Chinese Science and Technology: From Imitation to World Domination!
China is now one of the superpowers in the field of science and technology. Ignoring all accusations from Western countries, the country of a billion people has had a sp…
Biology
Strangely, the world's largest cashew tree is twice as big as a football field.
This is also the world's largest cashew tree recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records, with a canopy covering an area of about 8,500 square meters.
Videos
Video: Farmer brings 'dog squad' to the field, results in more than 500 rats being destroyed!
The dogs showed their agility and professionalism when helping their owner destroy the destructive rats.
Animal world
How do stray dogs find their way home?
Dogs' ability to find their way home may have been inherited from their ancestors, the gray wolf. Wolves roamed vast swaths of land across Eurasia.
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The element of the sun god is giving scientists a headache
Helium is a simple element on the periodic table, named after the sun god. Yet modern theory and experiments on it have produced puzzlingly different results.