Understanding chorus waves is vital, as they create fast-moving, highly energetic electrons (known as killer electrons) that can penetrate spacecraft shielding and destroy important systems.

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"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

One major category of the next generation of energy-efficient microelectronic devices and information processing technologies ...

A magnetic field is just an electric field seen from a different frame of reference. So, when an electron moves in the electric field of another electron, this special relativistic effect results ...

Earth’s magnetic field is detected by species across the animal kingdom, but new research suggests that sea turtles may be ...

Multiferroic materials, in which electric and magnetic properties are combined in promising ways, will be the heart of new ...