News tagged with magnetic forces

A new way to discover pulsars

(Phys.org) -- The Large Area Telescope (LAT), built by SLAC for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, collects information on high-energy gamma rays from numerous sources in the sky. Among these are small, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Dutch team has solution for troubled ITER nuclear fusion reactor

(PhysOrg.com) -- The superconducting cables designed for the ITER fusion reactor (cost: 16 billion euros = $21.2 billion) are unable to withstand the planned forty to sixty thousand charge cycles. Barring a solution, the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Study measures key property of potential 'spintronic' material

An advanced material that could help bring about next-generation "spintronic" computers has revealed one of its fundamental secrets to a team of scientists from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and the National ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify how cells respond to mechanical force

Many aspects of cell behaviour are influenced by mechanical force, but how single cells respond to these forces is unclear. An EU-funded team of researchers sheds light on the relationship between the signals ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A big surprise from the edge of the solar system: magnetic bubbles (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (35) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

Getting to know the sun advances fusion research

Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have successfully used Coaxial Helicity Injection (CHI) to generate plasma current and couple it to a conventional current generation method at the National Spherical ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Spanish scientists are working on mechanical transmission without contact between parts

Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid are coordinating an international project to develop a new concept of mechanical transmission without contact between parts, based on magnetic forces, which ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 20, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Scientists achieve highest-resolution MRI of a magnet

In a development that holds potential for both data storage and biomedical imaging, Ohio State University researchers have used a new technique to obtain the highest-ever resolution MRI scan of the inside ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 11, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Juno Armored Up to Go to Jupiter

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Juno spacecraft will be forging ahead into a treacherous environment at Jupiter with more radiation than any other place NASA has ever sent a spacecraft, except the sun. In a specially ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New views at the nanoscale

(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic resonance imaging, first developed in the early 1970s, has become a standard diagnostic tool for cancer, cardiovascular disease and neurological disorders, among others. MRI is ideally ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 27, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists record yoctonewton forces

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Australia and the US have discovered that trapped ions are "exquisitely sensitive" force detectors, and have used them to record the tiniest forces ever measured.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

For One Tiny Instant, Physicists May Have Broken a Law of Nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- For a brief instant, it appears, scientists at Brook­haven National Laboratory on Long Island recently discovered a law of nature had been broken.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (110) | comments 77 | with audio podcast

A New Way Forward for Nanocomposite Nanostructures

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory and the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign recently reported a new technique for directly writing composites of nanoparticles and polymers.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brown physicist discovers odd, fluctuating magnetic waves

At the quantum level, the forces of magnetism and superconductivity exist in an uneasy relationship. Superconducting materials repel a magnetic field, so to create a superconducting current, the magnetic forces ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 23, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 7 | with audio podcast