News tagged with geomagnetic field


Princeton paleomagnetists put controversy to rest

Paleomagnetists put controversy to rest

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Princeton University scientists have shown that, in ancient times, the Earth's magnetic field was structured like the two-pole model of today, suggesting that the methods geoscientists use ...


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Moon geology could solve three mysteries of early Earth

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (37) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not much is known about the Earth before 4 billion years ago, the earliest period in the planet’s 4.5-billion-year history. Because Earth has lost almost all geological records of this era ...





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WISE Launch Scheduled for Dec. 11

WISE Launch Scheduled for Dec. 11

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is scheduled for Dec. 11.


NASA Challenges 350 Rocketeers Nationwide to Aim a Mile High

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has invited more than 350 student rocketeers from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities -- 37 teams nationwide -- to take part in the 2009-2010 NASA Student Launch Projects.


Texas AgriLife researchers working to develop heartier, better-adapted crops

Biology / Other

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Dr. Daniel Leskovar, a Texas AgriLife Research plant physiologist at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Uvalde, has been investigating ways to help vegetable plants make a less stressful transition from the ...


Diffusion tensor imaging increases ability to remove benign tumors in children

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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A new study published this week in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics finds that operative plans for removing Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma, or JPA, tumors in the thalamus of the brain can be augmented with Diffusion Tensor ...


Fine-tuned

Fine-tuned: A wholly new approach to tuning a laser's frequency

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created 11 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 30 years, scientists have been trying to harness the power of terahertz radiation. Tucked between microwaves and infrared rays on the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz rays ...


New Peas Unfazed by Viral Bully

New Peas Unfazed by Viral Bully

Biology / Other

created 12 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Four advanced dry pea breeding lines that tolerate the pea enation mosaic virus (PEMV) -- a “scourge” of Pacific West pea crops -- have been identified by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) ...


NASA's WISE infrared satellite to reveal new galaxies, stars, asteroids

NASA's WISE infrared satellite to reveal new galaxies, stars, asteroids

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 13 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Data from the satellite, says principal investigator and UCLA professor Edward Wright, will help scientists answer fundamental questions about the history of our solar system, the Milky Way ...


Wizard at circuits, physics

Wizard at circuits, physics

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, uses his personal energy and understanding of physics to design innovative integrated circuits.


San Andreas fault

Quake prediction model developed

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The third in a series of papers in the journal Nature completes the case for a new method of predicting earthquakes.


Turning genetic trash to treasure

Turning genetic trash to treasure

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- John Rinn, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the Broad Institute, overcame a rocky start in life through a passion for biology and discovered ...



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