Cosmic forensic experts are reconstructing the magnetic field around an infant star from the planet-forming disk of gas and dust around it.

The team was able to use dust to measure the three-dimensional structure 'fingerprint' of the magnetic field. This will help improve our understanding of planet formation. For the first time ...

Ohashi et al. How do you dust a star for fingerprints? It's certainly a strange question, but a team of researchers think they have the answer. Their findings could help us better understand how ...

The team was able to use dust to measure the three-dimensional structure "fingerprint" of the magnetic field. This will help improve our understanding of planet formation. The movement of the dust ...

The team was able to use dust to measure the three-dimensional structure “fingerprint” of the magnetic field. This will help improve our understanding of planet formation. Planets form in ...

The white bars show the directions of the magnetic field revealed by the orientation of the dust grains. The strength of the magnetic field is 0.3 milligauss. For comparison, a typical ...

Britta Jaschinski (Germany/UK) looks on as a crime scene investigator from London’s Metropolitan Police dusts for prints on a confiscated tusk. Britta has won numerous international awards and works ...

New research has shown that a pigment called Egyptian blue, formulated some 5,250 years ago, can be used as dusting powder to detect fingerprints on complicated surfaces. The earliest known ...