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- Earth
Pinning Down the Sun-Climate Connection
Many scientists propose that changes in the sun's magnetic field and radiation output during its 11-year sunspot cycle also affect the atmosphere, changing Earth's climate by steering weather systems and influencing the amount of cloud cover.
- Physics
Magnetic Whispers
Promising new ways to magnetically probe tissues and substances are emerging now that a small research group has proved their once-ridiculed claim of a flaw in the 50-year-old theory behind magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and similar analytic techniques.
- Health & Medicine
Mending a Broken Heart
Transplants of skeletal-muscle cells may help heal hearts damaged by illness or previous heart attacks.
- Planetary Science
Stormy Weather
The 11-year cycle of solar storms has begun to peak, already affecting several Earth satellites and disturbing electric power systems on the ground, and scientists expect 2 more years of this solar maximum turmoil.
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Quantum Special Issue : PDF Download page
All files are saved as PDFs. Please download Adobe’s Acrobat Reader to view these files. Clash of the quantum tıtans (Tom Siegfried)/Zombie cat (Alexandra Witze) (Alexandra Witze)/Quantum weirdnessPDF 888KB Everyday entanglement (Laura Sanders)/A spooky link/75 years of entanglement (Alexandra Witze)/Quantum weirdness in actionPDF 1.18MB
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Special cosmic edition: PDF download page
All files are saved as PDFs. Please download Adobe’s Acrobat Reader to view these files. Cosmic questions, answers pending: Complete packagePDF 2.61MB Mission: reveal the secrets of the universePDF 555KB Pre-Bang branes and bubbles | By Ron Cowen PDF 546KB In the dark | By Alexandra Witze PDF 328KB Strung together | By Matt Crenson […]
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