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Magnetic field

Physics

Exotic super magnets could shake up medicine, cosmology and computing

Their unique blend of electric and magnetic properties was long thought impossible. Now multiferroics are shaking up fields from dark matter hunting to finding cancer

Features

Electromagnetic sphere

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Culture

Night sky

Space

The universe is 2.5 billion times less magnetic than a fridge magnet

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InSight

Space

NASA’s InSight lander is using magnetism to search for water on Mars

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A thunderstorm

Physics

Most powerful thunderstorm ever measured produced 1.3 billion volts

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Flerov lab

Physics

Inside the Russian factory making the heaviest atoms in the universe

Features

A black hole emits a plasma jet

Space

Black holes eat negative energy and vomit out huge powerful jets

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green patterned light

Physics

The emptiness of space has a structure we could use to send messages

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Radio antenna

Technology

Glass box of atomic vapour could work as a James-Bond-style spy radio

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‘Impossible’ EM drive doesn’t seem to work after all

Physics

‘Impossible’ EM drive doesn’t seem to work after all

A rocket engine propelled by electromagnetic waves grabbed headlines, but new tests find the EM drive may actually be driven by Earth’s magnetic field

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Space

Hidden exoplanets could be revealed by echoing light

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Physics

The forces that govern matter and light could be united at last

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Space

Should we seed life through the cosmos using laser-driven ships?

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Space

Gravitational waves have let us see huge neutron stars colliding

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