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Is This Invisible Magnetic Field Smothering Our Nearest Supermassive Black Hole?
June 14, 2019 | ArticleThe monster black hole at the center of the Milky Way is eerily quiet, and now astronomers think they know why.
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Lightning Strikes and Kills Motorcyclist. Why Rubber Tires Didn't Protect Him.
June 11, 2019 | ArticleHere's why a motorcycle's rubber tires didn't protect the rider when lightning struck.
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Hidden Winds on Jupiter May Be Messing with Its Enormous Magnetic Field
May 21, 2019 | ArticleJupiter's magnetic field has changed since the 1970s, and now physicists think they know why it's happening.
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Ancient Guatemalan Sculptors Knowingly Crafted Magnetic 'Potbelly' Statues
May 06, 2019 | ArticleThe giant heads and distorted bodies are magnetized in particular spots.
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What Makes the Strong Force So Special?
April 23, 2019 | ArticleThe Force is (super) strong with these quarks.
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Turbulent Blobs in Earth's Core May Explain Sudden Jerks in the Magnetic Field
April 22, 2019 | ArticleHere’s one explanation for why Earth’s magnetic field undergoes weird geomagnetic jerks every decade or so.
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Fountains of Plasma Rain Might Explain One of the Biggest Mysteries of the Sun
April 11, 2019 | ArticleThis strange structure could explain what happens during solar rain.
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Physicists Stuffed a Ghostly 'Skyrmion' Full of 'Antiskyrmions'
April 03, 2019 | ArticleThe ghostly 'quasiparticles' have barely any material existence, but physicists are still managing to manipulate them into uncanny shapes.
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Scientists Find Evidence That Your Brain Can Sense Earth's Magnetic Field
March 18, 2019 | ArticleThe Earth's magnetic field might be influencing the brain.
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Water Molecules Bounce Around the Moon. Here's Why.
March 12, 2019 | ArticleIt's too hot to sit still
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