News tagged with magnetic pulses
The world's smallest magnetic data storage unit
Scientists from IBM and the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) have built the world's smallest magnetic data storage unit. It uses just twelve atoms per bit, the basic unit of information, ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Bouncing atoms may be the key to the future of gravimetry
(PhysOrg.com) -- When studying cold atoms, scientists often use magnetic or optical traps to keep the atoms in place. However, in some cases experimentalists want to study free atoms, avoiding the effects of a trap. "One ...
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Los Alamos achieves world-record pulsed magnetic field, moves closer to 100-tesla mark
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory's Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory have set a new world record for the strongest magnetic field produced by ...
Aug 23, 2011 |
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Physicists develop powerful method of suppressing errors in many types of quantum computers
(PhsyOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a technique for efficiently suppressing errors in quantum computers. The advance could eventually make it ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Ultra-fast magnetic reversal observed
A newly discovered magnetic phenomenon could accelerate data storage by several orders of magnitude.
Apr 13, 2011 |
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New laser can point the way to new energy harvesting
New ultrafast laser equipment, capable of generating intense pulses of light as short as a few femtoseconds from the UV to the Infra Red, will help scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) measure how energy is transferred ...
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Magnetic Vortex Switch Leads to Electric Pulse
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Arkansas have shown that changing the chirality, or direction of spin, of a nanoscale magnetic vortex creates an electric pulse, suggesting that such a pulse might be of use ...
Apr 08, 2009 |
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I see your pain
(PhysOrg.com) -- How can some sportsmen and women, in the heat of the moment, play on through pain that would floor anyone else? Bert Trautmann, the Manchester City goalkeeper, famously played on through to ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Magnetic brain stimulation improves skill learning
The use of magnetic pulses to stimulate the dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) region of the brain results in an improved ability to learn a skilled motor task. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience show t ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 07, 2009 |
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New MRI signaling method could picture disease metabolism in action
Duke University chemists are using modified magnetic resonance imaging to see molecular changes inside people's bodies that could signal health problems such as cancer.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Learn more quickly by transcranial magnetic brain stimulation
What sounds like science fiction is actually possible: thanks to magnetic stimulation, the activity of certain brain nerve cells can be deliberately influenced. What happens in the brain in this context has ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 28, 2011 |
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Weapons detection system could make airports, public buildings safer
Weapons detection technology being developed by McMaster researchers can't come soon enough for busy travelers.
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Scientists, politicians take the threat of an electromagnetic pulse very seriously
The sky erupts. Cities darken, food spoils and homes fall silent. Civilization collapses. End-of-the-world novel? A video game? Or could such a scenario loom in America's future? There is talk of catastrophe ahead, depending ...
Nov 06, 2010 |
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Ball lightning may sometimes be explained as hallucinations
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists in Austria have calculated the magnetic fields associated with certain types of lightning strikes are powerful enough to create hallucinations of hovering balls of light in nearby ...
May 13, 2010 |
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Solar storms join floods, terrorism as risks to UK
(AP) -- Britain has added volcanoes and solar storms to floods, flu and terrorism on a list of threats to national security.
Mar 18, 2012 |
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