Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in plasmas, through which the magnetic energy is converted into ...

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As global warming and climate change persist, the melting of ice in lakes poses severe and misunderstood threats to ...

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However, how current sheets come into being remains unresolved. A research team led by Prof. LU Quanming and Prof. WANG ...

Their high-fidelity computational model is a milestone both in biology, where it can help explain the octopus's impressive capability, and engineering. "The computational model is a useful testbed for ...

In medieval times, astrology was considered a serious science, a branch of astronomy. Curator Larisa Grollemond of the Getty Museum, walks us through the medieval zodiac and how someone’s sign ...

Bacon is one of the most popular foods in the United States. Americans on average consume more than 18 pounds of bacon each year and in 2023 alone the tasty breakfast staple generated $6.3 billion in ...

Soybean farmers have benefited from decades of checkoff-funded research that’s pushed yields, and now a program is taking ...

Fewer lakes are freezing over each winter compared with past years, posing environmental and economic consequences around the world ...

Stanford researchers have delved into gluing proteins to trigger cancer cell death, developed an affordable ice-penetration ...

New research suggests that about 3.6 billion years ago, Mars featured vast water flows and a lake rivaling the size of the ...