Rice lab mimics Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids inside a single atom

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Rice University physicists have gone to extremes to prove that Isaac Newton's classical laws of motion can apply in the atomic world: They've built an accurate model of part of the solar system inside a single atom of potassium.

Solar Wind May Explain Planet Mercury’s Puny Magnetic Field

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The mystery of why Mercury 's magnetic field is so weak may just have been solved: It is being stifled by the solar wind, researchers think. [More]

Scientists report first solar cell producing more electrons in photocurrent than solar photons entering cell

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have reported the first solar cell that produces a photocurrent that has an external quantum efficiency greater than 100 percent when photoexcited with photons from the high energy region of the solar spectrum.

Scientists report first solar cell producing more electrons in photocurrent than solar photons entering cell

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Solar System Likely Once Had Another Gas Giant Planet

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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Those are the gas giants, the four heavyweights of the solar system. But was there once a fifth

Solar Blares: Listening to the Sun May Improve Space Weather Forecasts

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Peering deep into the sun's churning plasma, solar physicists have discovered a way to forecast the emergence of sunspots before they reach the solar surface.

Comet Bops Past Neptune Cleanly

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If the solar system were a Peanuts cartoon, the role of Pigpen would be played by a comet.

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Rice lab mimics Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids inside a single atom

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Scientists report first solar cell producing more electrons in photocurrent than solar photons entering cell

Scientists report first solar cell producing more electrons in photocurrent than solar photons entering cell

Solar System Likely Once Had Another Gas Giant Planet

Solar Blares: Listening to the Sun May Improve Space Weather Forecasts

Comet Bops Past Neptune Cleanly

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