An artist’s impression of an active mantle plume – a large mass of hot, floating rock – rising from deep within Mars and pushing up Elysium Planitia, a plain in the planet’s northern lowlands. The volcanism at Elysium Planitia originates from the Cerberus Fossae, highlighted in red, a collection of young fissures that stretch more …
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Matteo Paolozzi Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Barcelona, Spain November 21, 2022• Physics 15, 179 A tool for estimating the local entropy production rate of a system allows the visualization and quantification of non-equilibrium regions of an active material system. S. Martiniani/New York University Figure 1: Researchers have developed a method to directly …
A huge neutrino observatory buried deep in the ice of Antarctica has discovered only the second extra-galactic source of the elusive particles ever found. In results published last week in Science, the IceCube collaboration reports the detection of neutrinos from an “active galaxy” called NGC 1068, located some 47 million light-years from Earth. How to …
