News tagged with magnetic activity
Solar 'climate change' could cause rougher space weather
(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research shows that the space age has coincided with a period of unusually high solar activity, called a grand maximum. Isotopes in ice sheets and tree rings tell us that this grand ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 02, 2012 |
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NMR sheds new light on polymorphic forms in pharmaceutical compounds
Scientists at the University of Warwick have used state-of-the-art nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques to shed new light on how pharmaceutical molecules pack together in the solid state.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 07, 2012 |
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Earth's energy budget remained out of balance despite unusually low solar activity
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new NASA study underscores the fact that greenhouse gases generated by human activity -- not changes in solar activity -- are the primary force driving global warming.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 30, 2012 |
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ESA To Collaborate with NASA on Solar Science Mission
On October 4, 2011, the European Space Agency announced it's two next science missions, including Solar Orbiter, a spacecraft geared to study the powerful influence of the sun. Solar Orbiter will be an ESA-led ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 06, 2011 |
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Magnetic field sensors for monitoring heart and brain activity developed
High sensitivity magnetic sensors are important in medical diagnostics for applications such as monitoring heart and brain activities, where mapping distributions of localized extremely weak magnetic fields ...
Sep 02, 2011 |
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New method detects emerging sunspots deep inside the sun, provides warning of dangerous solar flares
Viewed from the technological perspective of modern humans, the sun is a seething cauldron of disruptive influences that can wreak havoc on communication systems, air travel, power grids and satellites – ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 18, 2011 |
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Sounding rockets study how winds in space drive currents in the upper atmosphere
Some 50 miles up in the sky begins a dynamic region of the atmosphere known as the ionosphere. The region is filled with charged particles created by extreme ultraviolet radiation from the sun. At the base ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Clinic tries to wean addicts off Internet fix
Choi Hyun-Min loses all track of time when he sits down to play computer games, but the sessions usually last at least 10 hours.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 19, 2011 |
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Researchers scan cyclists' brains at race speed in S.Africa
Researchers in South Africa said Monday they have found a way to measure the brain activity of cyclists at racing speed, breaking new ground in the study of how the brain works during exercise.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 23, 2011 |
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Study identifies neural activity linked to food addiction
Persons with an addictive-like eating behavior appear to have greater neural activity in certain regions of the brain similar to substance dependence, including elevated activation in reward circuitry in response to food ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Youth at risk for obesity show greater brain activity in response to food
Do people overeat because they experience less reward from eating or because they experience more reward from eating? In the March 23, 2011 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience Oregon Research Institute (ORI) senior scient ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 22, 2011 |
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FASTSAT Mission Update
The FASTSat Mini-Me and PISA instruments are successfully performing science observations as the TTI instrument continues sensor optimization.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 14, 2011 |
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In adolescence, the power to resist blooms in the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just when children are faced with intensifying peer pressure to misbehave, regions of the brain are actually blossoming in a way that heighten the ability to resist risky behavior, report ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2011 |
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How do we combine faces and voices?
Human social interactions are shaped by our ability to recognise people. Faces and voices are known to be some of the key features that enable us to identify individual people, and they are rich in information such as gender, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Text messaging helps smokers break the habit
A pair of related studies on smoking cessation by researchers at the University of Oregon and other institutions have isolated the brain regions most active in controlling urges to smoke and demonstrated the effectiveness ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 08, 2011 |
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