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Re:Magnetic wormhole created for first time by kenbellows on Thursday September 03, 2015 @10:00AM (#10164979)
From the abstract of the Nature article linked by @comboy below (http://www.nature.com/articles/srep12488):

> the magnetic field from a source at one end of the wormhole appears at the other end as an isolated magnetic monopolar field, creating the illusion of a magnetic field propagating through a tunnel outside the 3D space.

Seems that there's no actual tunneling, just the illusion of tunneling.

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Re:Magnetic wormhole created for first time by lvs on Thursday September 03, 2015 @12:07PM (#10165710)
The article is in the journal Scientific Reports, not Nature. Nature Publishing Group is the publisher of that journal.
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Re:Magnetic wormhole created for first time by semi-extrinsic on Thursday September 03, 2015 @02:49PM (#10166809)
Also, note that Scientific Reports has no requirements for a paper to be super-novel/cool/hot topic, in contrast to the actual Nature journal. Anything which is decent science will get published in SRep; it's NPG's version of PLOS One.

It seems Nature's strategy is working here, since many news outlets and the general public don't seem to be aware of the difference.

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