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Wed, 06 Apr 2022
The longest drought, redefined

Climate scientists reconsider the meaning and implications of drought

Maps of the American West have featured ever darker shades of red over the past two decades. The colors illustrate the unprecedented drought blighting the region. In some areas, conditions have blown past severe and extreme drought into exceptional drought. But rather than …

Wed, 06 Apr 2022
Laboratory experiments replicate volatile plasma at the center of galaxy clusters

Scientists use simulations and high-power lasers to explain how turbulent plasma can stay hot

A team of U.S. National Science Foundation grantee astronomers and astrophysicists based at the University of Rochester and other institutions examined the inner workings of heat conduction in galaxy clusters — thousands of galaxies held together by gravity.

The matter in galaxy clusters …

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Wed, 06 Apr 2022The longest drought, redefined

Wed, 06 Apr 2022Laboratory experiments replicate volatile plasma at the center of galaxy clusters

Wed, 06 Apr 2022
The longest drought, redefined

Wed, 06 Apr 2022
Laboratory experiments replicate volatile plasma at the center of galaxy clusters