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Physicists harness effects of disorder in magnetic sensors

Physicists harness effects of disorder in magnetic sensors

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 09, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Chicago scientists have discovered how to make magnetic sensors capable of operating at the high temperatures that ceramic engines in cars and aircraft of the future will require ...





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Mass-Producing Tunable Magnetic Nanoparticles

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 21, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Taking a cue from the semiconductor industry, a team of investigators at Stanford University has developed a method of producing unlimited quantities of highly magnetic nanoparticles suitable for use as magnetic resonance ...


Using magnetic nanoparticles to combat cancer

Using magnetic nanoparticles to combat cancer

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 16, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 1

Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a potential new treatment against cancer that attaches magnetic nanoparticles to cancer cells, allowing them to be captured and carried out of the body. The treatment, ...


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Capture of nanomagnetic 'fingerprints' a boost for next-generation information storage media

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

In the race to develop the next generation of storage and recording media, a major hurdle has been the difficulty of studying the tiny magnetic structures that will serve as their building blocks. Now a team ...


Cattle respond to magnetic fields from power lines

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 9

(AP) -- High-voltage power lines mess with animal magnetism. Researchers, who reported last year that most cows and deer tend to orient themselves in a north-south alignment, have now found that power lines can disorient ...


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- ...


Electrochemical technique follows the motion of individual microparticles in space and time

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many bacteria are able to 'swim' through liquids by means of a flagellum. When doing this, some bacteria follow attractants, some flee from harmful substances, and others align themselves using light, gravity, ...


Single-Molecule Magnets Open New Door for Information Technology

Single-Molecule Magnets Open New Door for Information Technology

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research by scientists in Italy and France shows that that single molecules have the ability to store information via their magnetic state. Their work is a first step toward a new generation ...


Magnetic tape analysis 'sees' tampering in detail

Magnetic tape analysis 'sees' tampering in detail

Technology / Other

created Jul 23, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed an improved version of a real-time magnetic microscopy system that converts evidence of tampering on magnetic audio and video tapes—erasing, ...


Chameleon for Optoelectronics

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 13, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (28) | comments 0

A liquid that changes its color “on demand” and can take on any color of the rainbow one desires?


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Brain's magnetic fields reveal language delays in autism

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Faint magnetic signals from brain activity in children with autism show that those children process sound and language differently from non-autistic children. Identifying and classifying these brain response ...



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