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A bubbling ball of gas

A bubbling ball of gas (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 7

The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up - and behind the whole thing ...


Big Bear Solar Observatory captures sun's magnetic field better

Big Bear Solar Observatory captures sun's magnetic field

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 6

NJIT's new 1.6-meter clear aperture solar telescope—the largest of its kind in the world—is now operational. The unveiling of this remarkable instrument—said to be the pathfinder for all future, large ground-based ...


Nanodisk Fingerprint

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 ...





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Saturn/Flowers New Nano-Structures

Sophisticated nano-structures assembled with magnets (Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- What do Saturn and flowers have in common? As shapes, both possess certain symmetries that are easily recognizable in the natural world. Now, at an extremely small level, researchers from ...


Magnetic Snake

Magnetic Snakes Create Water Current

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 24, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (24) | comments 0

Physicists at Argonne National Laboratory have found that magnetic particles suspended in water and subjected to an alternating magnetic field will form snake-shaped structures that can control the flow of ...


How space eruptions happen

How space eruptions happen

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mathematicians at the University of St Andrews have made a discovery which could lead to a better understanding of why huge eruptions occur in space.


Taking the Stress Out of Magnetic Field Detection

Taking the Stress Out of Magnetic Field Detection

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have discovered that a carefully built magnetic sandwich that interleaves layers of a magnetic alloy with a few nanometers ...


Magnetic Fields Around a Dipol

3-D Imaging -- First Insights Into Magnetic Fields

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 30, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (47) | comments 4

3-D images are not only useful in medicine; the observation of internal structures is also invaluable in many other fields of scientific investigation. Recently, researchers from the Hahn-Meitner-Institute ...


Bon MOT: Innovative atom trap catches highly magnetic atoms

Bon MOT: Innovative atom trap catches highly magnetic atoms

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 02, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 0

A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland has succeeded in cooling atoms of a rare-earth element, erbium, to within two millionths of a degree of ...


The Sun

Sun's corona is both hot and kinky

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 06, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Astrophysicists are having a heated debate over the wave structure of the Sun’s Corona - a debate which may one day influence solar weather forecasting and the theory behind fusion reactors.


Unexpectedly Long-Range Effects in Advanced Magnetic Devices

Unexpectedly Long-Range Effects in Advanced Magnetic Devices

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A tiny grid pattern has led materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Institute of Solid State Physics in Russia to an unexpected finding—the ...


Chemists create protein structure database

Chemistry / Other

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Any chemist with access to the Internet can now use a powerful tool to help them accurately identify the structure of a protein, thanks to recently published work led by Harold A. Scheraga, Cornell's Todd ...


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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