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‘Mini lightning’ on Mars shows atmosphere is electrically active, mission

Nasa’s Perseverance rover has obtained evidence that the atmosphere of Mars is electrically active. The six-wheeled rover, exploring the planet since 2021 at a place called Jezero Crater in its ...

To Escape Extinction, We Need to Achieve Warp Speed. New Scientific Breakthroughs Suggest It’s Possible.

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

Exceptional points alter the order of lasing modes

Exceptional points (EPs) are non-Hermitian singularities where two or more eigenstates coalesce, resulting in the eigenspace ...

'Mini-Lightning': NASA Rover Detects Electrical Discharges On Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has obtained evidence that the atmosphere of Mars is electrically active, detecting electrical discharges - what one scientist called "mini-lightning" - often associated with ...