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A young pulsar shows its hand

A young pulsar shows its hand

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 7

A small, dense object only twelve miles in diameter is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years. At the center of this image made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a very ...





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Fingers, Loops and Bays in the Crab Nebula

Fingers, Loops and Bays in the Crab Nebula

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- This image gives the first clear view of the faint boundary of the Crab Nebula's X-ray-emitting pulsar wind nebula. The nebula is powered by a rapidly-rotating, highly-magnetized neutron star, ...


Magnetic field on bright star Vega

Magnetic field on bright star Vega

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Astronomy & Astrophysics journal publishes the first detection of a magnetic field on the bright star Vega. Using the NARVAL spectropolarimeter of the Bernard-Lyot telescope on top of the Pic du Midi (Franc ...


FDA researchers identify new MRI safety risk for patients with pacemakers

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

FDA researchers have found that certain cardiac pacemakers may inadequately stimulate a patient's heart while undergoing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan due to the magnetic pulses mixing with the electronic pulses ...


Birds 'See' Earth's Magnetic Field

Birds 'See' Earth's Magnetic Field

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 2

When birds migrate over long distances -- sometimes thousands of miles -- they usually end up in exactly the same place year after year. Such accurate feats of navigation, accomplished by millions of birds ...


Multiferroic compounds used to produce smaller and cheaper digital memories

Multiferroic compounds used to produce smaller and cheaper digital memories

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Is it possible to make even more compact digital memories for portable electronic devices and which consume even less energy? A team of French researchers has recently demonstrated that it ...


NASA Satellites Discover What Powers Northern Lights

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 24, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers using a fleet of five NASA satellites have discovered that explosions of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon power substorms that cause sudden brightenings and rapid movements of the ...


Sun Often 'Tears Out A Wall' In Earth's Solar Storm Shield

Sun Often 'Tears Out A Wall' In Earth's Solar Storm Shield

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Earth's magnetic field, which shields our planet from particles streaming outward from the Sun, often develops two holes that allow the largest leaks, according to researchers sponsored by ...


New discovery at Jupiter could help protect Earth-orbit satellites

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 09, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (38) | comments 1

Radio waves accelerate electrons within Jupiter’s magnetic field in the same way as they do on Earth, according to new research published in Nature Physics this week. The discovery overturns a theory that has held sway f ...


Novel magnets made from the strongest known hydrogen bond

Novel magnets made from the strongest known hydrogen bond

Chemistry /

created Dec 06, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (30) | comments 0

A team of scientists from the US, the UK and Germany has been the first to make a magnetic material constructed from nature's strongest known hydrogen bond. Hydrogen bonds are responsible for many of the properties ...


Tiny magnetic discs could kill cancer cells: study

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (23) | comments 4

Tiny magnetic discs just a millionth of a metre in diameter could be used to used to kill cancer cells, according to a study published on Sunday.



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