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Search and Discovery
A new search for magnetic monopoles
The latest results from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have established a lower mass limit for the elusive hypothesized particle.
Lawrence Livermore achieves a burning plasma in the lab
In that regime, fusion reactions are the plasma’s primary source of heating.
Diamond-defect NMR monitors a surface reaction
Few other techniques can track adsorbed molecules in real time under ambient conditions.
Issues and Events
Electrification of cars and trucks likely won’t disrupt the grid
The Biden administration’s recently announced national charging network is a first step to enabling a fully electrified US vehicle fleet.
Ballooning satellite populations in low Earth orbit portend changes for science and society
Technological advances and business incentives far outpace space regulations.
Articles
Hendrik Lorentz, Robert Millikan, and interwar reconciliation
World War I tore apart a close-knit international physics community. During the interwar period, two famous physicists attempted to repair those shattered bonds.
Simulating four-dimensional physics in the laboratory
Experimental methods to imitate extra spatial dimensions reveal new physical phenomena that emerge in a higher-dimensional world.
Unveiling exozodiacal light
Nulling interferometry draws aside bright stellar glare to probe fine dust in extrasolar systems that may hamper future searches for Earthlike worlds.
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Kyozi Kawasaki
Quick Study
How did Mars lose its atmosphere and water?
They were mostly lost to space early in Mars’s history, in processes driven by the Sun’s UV photons and solar wind after Mars lost its magnetic field.