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Scientists pinpoint mechanism to increase magnetic response of ferromagnetic semiconductor

Scientists pinpoint mechanism to increase magnetic response of ferromagnetic semiconductor

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When squeezed, electrons increase their ability to move around. In compounds such as semiconductors and electrical insulators, such squeezing can dramatically change the electrical- and magnetic- ...





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Dynamic frustration may lead to better understanding of glass in nature

Argonne scientists discover new class of glassy material

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 28, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (34) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are dealing with an entirely new type of frustration, but it's not stressing them out.


Physicists Turn to Radio Dial for Finer Atomic Matchmaking

Physicists Turn to Radio Dial for Finer Atomic Matchmaking

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Investigating mysterious data in ultracold gases of rubidium atoms, scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland ...


Magnetic Dance of Titan and Saturn To Be Main Attraction during Flyby

Magnetic Dance of Titan and Saturn To Be Main Attraction during Flyby

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it flies by Saturn's largest moon, Titan, this weekend, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will study the interactions between the magnetic field of Saturn and Titan. The flyby will take place ...


FDA researchers identify new MRI safety risk for patients with pacemakers

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | 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 ...


Delicate Relation between Single Spins

Delicate Relation between Single Spins

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 01, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 0

Probing the magnetic interaction between single atoms is no longer a dream. Using a scanning tunnelling microscope, the interaction of the spins of two neighbouring cobalt atoms adsorbed at a copper surface ...


Duke innovations improve accuracy of MRI as internal 'thermometer'

Chemistry /

created Oct 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Duke University chemists say they have developed a new way to measure temperature changes inside the body with unprecedented precision by correcting a subtle error in the original theory underlying Magnetic Resonance Imaging ...


First Glimpse of Star Flip

First Glimpse of Star Flip

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 26, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (33) | comments 0

An international team of astrophysicists has, for the first time, discovered a star other than the Sun flipping its north and south magnetic poles.


Cluster watches Earth's leaky atmosphere

Cluster watches Earth's leaky atmosphere

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 28, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 8

Oxygen is constantly leaking out of Earth’s atmosphere and into space. Now, ESA’s formation-flying quartet of satellites, Cluster, has discovered the physical mechanism that is driving the escape. It turns ...


Nanotechnologists Gain Powerful New Materials Probe

Nanotechnologists Gain Powerful New Materials Probe

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and The Johns Hopkins University have constructed a unique tool for exploring the properties of promising new materials with ...


Magnetism loses under pressure

Magnetism loses under pressure

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 29, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (30) | comments 0

Scientists have discovered that the magnetic strength of magnetite—the most abundant magnetic mineral on Earth—declines drastically when put under pressure. Researchers from the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical ...



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