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A trio of physicists from Princeton University, CIT's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Spectral Sensor Solutions, all in the U.S ...
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The Analyzer for Cusp Electrons (ACE) is designed to measure electron activity in the region of the northern magnetospheric ...
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Researchers discover collisionless shock waves as cosmic engines accelerating subatomic particles in space to extreme speeds.
In a nutshell Scientists discovered that lightning on Earth can knock high-energy electrons out of the inner radiation belt, ...
Scientists have unlocked a way to read magnetic orientation at record-breaking speeds using terahertz radiation. Modern hard ...