News tagged with magnetic poles

Tracking a Jurassic reversal of the Earth's magnetic field

Roughly 180 million years ago, during the height of the Jurassic period, the Earth's magnetic field flipped, bringing the magnetic north pole once again into the Northern Hemisphere.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers demonstrate new way to control nonvolatile magnetic memory devices

(Phys.org) -- Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new strategy for making energy- efficient, reliable nonvolatile magnetic memory devices -- which retain information without electric power.

Physics / General Physics

created May 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists make discoveries about the ways oceans form

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Missouri University of Science and Technology have discovered magnetic stripes in Ethiopia that could indicate the coming formation of a new ocean basin in the next two million years or so. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physicists 'record' magnetic breakthrough

An international team of scientists has demonstrated a revolutionary new way of magnetic recording which will allow information to be processed hundreds of times faster than by current hard drive technology.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (46) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Two New Zealand scientists to travel to Antarctica to measure magnetic South Pole

(PhysOrg.com) -- While the rest of the world gets on with meeting the New Year head on, two research scientists from New Zealand are traveling to the Antarctic to take measurements of the magnet South Pole. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 02, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Are pulsars giant permanent magnets?

Some of the most bizarre phenomenon in the universe are neutron stars. Very few things in our universe can rival the density in these remnants of supernova explosions. Neutron stars emit intense radiation ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 18

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

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Physicists to develop new way of electronic computing

The University of California, Riverside has received a $1.85 million grant to develop a new way of computing that is beyond the scope of conventional silicon electronics.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Magnetic properties of a single proton directly observed for the first time

German researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM), together with their colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg and the GSI Helmholtz ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Launching balloons in Antarctica

They nicknamed it the "Little Balloon That Could." Launched in December of 2010 from McMurdo Station in Antarctica, the research balloon was a test run and it bobbed lower every day like it had some kind of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tampa airport runways renumbered due to magnetic north movement

(PhysOrg.com) -- The magnetic north pole is slowly moving, and the shift is affecting runways at airports in Tampa, Florida, with the major runway at Tampa International Airport closed until January 13th to ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

Northern Lights hit 100-year low point: Finnish researchers

The Northern Lights have petered out during the second half of this decade, becoming rarer than at any other time in more than a century, the Finnish Meteorological Institute said Tuesday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Superconductors face the future

Futuristic ideas for the use of superconductors, materials that allow electric current to flow without resistance, are myriad: long-distance, low-voltage electric grids with no transmission loss; fast, magnetically ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Sep 10, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Evidence of second fast north-south pole flip found

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Earth's magnetic poles flip around every 200,000 years or so, with north becoming south and vice versa. Normally, the process takes 4-5,000 years and it ought to be impossible for the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 06, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (44) | comments 29 | with audio podcast report

New theory for magnetic stripes on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- A controversial new theory has been proposed to explain a series of stripes of permanently magnetized minerals containing iron in the Martian crust. The magnetized stripes, which have alternating ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report