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Physics
Kinetic Alfvén waves may be the key to the mystery of solar coronal heating
Geometry of obliquely propagating Alfvén waves. This schematic diagram shows the fitted geometry of a KAW in a circular cross-section solar flux tube loop of height h and radius a. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-77975-6 Saeed Ayaz, a researcher at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), published a paper in Scientific Reports based on a first-of-its-kind study examining…
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Biology
Scientists discover that Pacific southern killer whales have access to enough food, deepening the mystery of their struggle
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Two marine mammal scientists from the University of British Columbia have discovered that the claim that a lack of access to salmon is the cause of the plummeting population of killer whales in the southern Pacific Ocean is false. In a paper published on the open access site PLOS ONE, Burak Saigiri and Andrew Treitz discuss…
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Physics
New CMS results solve mystery of W boson mass
The Compact Muon Solenoid Detector is located 100 metres underground at CERN on the French-Swiss border and collects data from the Large Hadron Collider. The detector has been operational since 2010 and is part of one of the largest international scientific collaborations in history, studying the fundamental laws of nature. Credit: Brice, Maximilien: CERN Following an unexpected measurement at Fermi…
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