ELECTRIC & MAGNET

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  Tying loose ends? Gravitational waves could solve string theory, study claims

  The Guardian - Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

  New paper suggests that the hotly contested physics thesis, which involves the existence of six ‘extra dimensions’, may be settled by cutting-edge laser detectors String theory makes the grand promise of weaving together all of physics into a single sublime framework. The only downside is that …

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  Strange Noise in Gravitational-Wave Data Sparks Debate

  WIRED - Mark H. Kim

  The team that discovered gravitational waves put their data online. Now an independent group of researchers claims that they’ve found what might be a …

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  Four far-out plans for taming our weather

  Popular Science - Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

  Including the a rain unmaker. Cloud seeding is just the beginning. Below, a handful of pie-in-the-sky ideas for controlling the weather. A Laser Lightning Killer Lightning is pretty. But near airports, it can threaten ground crews, sending them indoors and delaying flights. Around power stations, it …

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  The Hunt for Gravitational Waves Is Officially Headed to Space

  Gizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum

  It took around a hundred years between Albert Einstein crafting his theory of general relativity and the confirmation of one of its wildest …

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  Controversial New Gravitational Waves Paper Shows Science Happening In Real Time [Updated]

  Gizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum

  If you know science, you know it’s not perfect. Outside eyes review papers their peers wrote before those papers get published, results must be …

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  Hypnotic Video Simulates How Earth Gets Its Magnetic Field

  Gizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum

  The Earth is a giant magnet, with a north and a south pole just like any magnet you’ve ever played with. But the Earth’s magnetic field plays a vital …