News tagged with magnetization reversal

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

Ultra-fast magnetic reversal observed

A newly discovered magnetic phenomenon could accelerate data storage by several orders of magnitude.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | 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

Reversals of Earth's Magnetic Field Explained by Small Core Fluctuations

(PhysOrg.com) -- Based on studies of old volcanic basalt, scientists know that the Earth’s magnetic field reverses at irregular intervals, ranging from tens of thousands to millions of years. Volcanic basalt ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (53) | comments 24 feature




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Enceladus plume is a new kind of plasma laboratory

(Phys.org) -- Recent findings from NASA's Cassini mission reveal that Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus provides a special laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma, or hot ionized gas. In these recent ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Physicists store short movies in an atomic vapor

The storage of light-encoded messages on film and compact disks and as holograms is ubiquitous---grocery scanners, Netflix disks, credit-card images are just a few examples. And now light signals can be stored ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

An unlikely route to ferroelectricity

(Phys.org) -- Ferroelectricity, which was first observed in the 1940s, is an interesting phenomenon involving the spontaneous (non-induced) formation of charge polarization (separation of charge) in certain ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Hinode and SOHO paint an asymmetrical picture of the Sun

Approximately every 11 years the magnetic field on the sun reverses completely – the north magnetic pole switches to south, and vice versa. It's as if a bar magnet slowly lost its magnetic field and regained ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Long predicted but never observed: A new kind of quantum junction

A new type of quantum bit called a "phase-slip qubit", devised by researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute and their collaborators, has enabled the world's first-ever experimental demonstration ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Clean energy could lead to scarce materials

As the world moves toward greater use of low-carbon and zero-carbon energy sources, a possible bottleneck looms, according to a new MIT study: the supply of certain metals needed for key clean-energy technologies.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

Mysteries of the sun ... explained in video

NASA has just released five new videos called "Mysteries of the Sun". The videos describe the science of the sun and its effects on the solar system and Earth. Scientists study the sun not only to better understand ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Resetting the future of MRAM

In close collaboration with colleagues from Bochum, Germany, and the Netherlands, researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany, have developed a novel, extremely thin structure made of various magnetic ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

'Anti-atomic fingerprint': Physicists manipulate anti-hydrogen atoms for the first time (Update)

The ALPHA collaboration at CERN in Geneva has scored another coup on the antimatter front by performing the first-ever spectroscopic measurements of the internal state of the antihydrogen atom. Their results ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (30) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Space weather: Explosions on Venus

In the grand scheme of the solar system, Venus and Earth are almost the same distance from the sun. Yet the planets differ dramatically: Venus is some 100 times hotter than Earth and its days more than 200 ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 8 | with audio podcast


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