The ever-present hail of cosmic rays streaming into the Solar System from an outer galaxy may not be what we thought. According to Chang’e 4 on the far side of the Moon, there is a mysterious ‘bag’ of cosmic ray flux between the Earth and the Moon that occurs when the two bodies line up … Read more
Our relationship with space is changing rapidly. For almost all of human history, the space above us was an unreachable limit. Yet in one lifetime, the Earth’s orbit has gone from empty to crowded with satellites. In the meantime, although the moon is still rare, in the next few decades it is expected to be … Read more
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has created a 35.6 tesla supermagnet, which is more than 700,000 times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field, capable of working for more than 200 hours while using less energy, and the system has been installed in Beijing as a shared research tool for quantum materials, superconductors, nuclear molecules. China … Read more