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Battery powered to heal
With its own first-aid kit, this battery can really keep going
Posted in Atoms & Forces
Tagged Battery, circuit, current, electric circuits, electricity, feature, physics
Like electricity, but magnetic
Getting magnetic poles on the move makes a new kind of flow
Posted in Light & Radiation
Tagged electricity, electromagnetism, getinvolved, magnetism, Magnetricity, Magnets, physics, Poles
Underwater Racket
The oceans are getting louder, and scientists want to know what that means for marine residents
Posted in Environment & Pollution
Tagged beaching, birds, getinvolved, hearing, mammals, marine life, physics, reptiles, reptiles/birds/mammals, sonar, sound, sound pollution, waves, Whales
The energy of an Internet search
Websurfing has a bigger footprint than you might think
Posted in Technology & Engineering
Tagged conservation of energy, energy, Energy efficiency, feature, physics
World’s tiniest fridge
Staying cool, even in the quantum world
Posted in Technology & Engineering
Tagged energy transfer, Heat, physics, thermodynamics
Wrong-way planets do gymnastics
A group of planets that orbit the wrong way may have flipped over their stars.
Posted in Space
Tagged circular, gravitation, gravitation/circular motion, physics
Mercury’s magnetic twisters
The planet’s strange atmosphere may have a lot to do with the sun.
Posted in Space
Tagged electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetism, magnetic field, magnetism, mercury, physics, Tornado
The hottest soup in New York
A quark-gluon plasma reaches the highest temperature ever measured in a lab.
Posted in Physics
Tagged atom, Atomic structure, atomic structure/nuclear chemistry, atoms and molecules, electron, gluon, modern physics, neutron, nuclear chemistry, nucleus, phases of matter, physics, proton, quark
Cold, colder and coldest ice
Electric charge can change the temperature at which water freezes.
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