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Discovery of the first radiation belt beyond the Solar System

Since the late 1950s, we have been aware of the existence of radiation belts around Earth and Jupiter. A radiation belt is a doughnut-shaped region around an object created by its magnetic field. Charged particles (mainly electrons, but not exclusively) are trapped in this region... click to read more

Juan Bautista Climent Oliver | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Valencia

exoplanet

magnetic field

brown dwarf

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Jan 27, 2025

The flesh-eating Venus flytrap plant generates its own magnetic fields

In recent decades, more and more techniques from physics have been applied to biological systems, often with far-reaching consequences. For example, noninvasive techniques like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are now commonly used to study or diagnose the human brain and body. The successful transfer of... click to read more

Anne Fabricant | PhD student at Helmholtz Institute Mainz, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany

Sönke Scherzer | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Dmitry Budker | Professor at Helmholtz Institute Mainz; Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany; University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

venus flytrap

magnetic field

electric signals

carnivorous plant

Reading time 4 min

published on Oct 19, 2022