News tagged with magnetometer
Physicists Measure Elusive 'Persistent Current' That Flows Forever
Oct 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Yale University have made the first definitive measurements of "persistent current," a small but perpetual electric current that flows naturally through tiny rings of metal wire ...
Space scientists set for final spacecraft flyby of Mercury
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 28, 2009 |
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NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which is toting an $8.7 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument, will make its third and final flyby of Mercury on Sept. 29 -- a clever gravity-assist maneuver that ...
Caistor skeleton mystifies archaeologists
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 15, 2009 |
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A skeleton, found at one of the most important, but least understood, Roman sites in Britain is puzzling experts from The University of Nottingham.
Students create portable device to detect suicide bombers (w/ Video)
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the weapons of suicide bombers, are a major cause of soldier casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. A group of University of Michigan engineering undergraduate students have ...
Showcasing the secrets of Caistor Roman town
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 24, 2009 |
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In December 2007 a team of experts, led by The University of Nottingham, unveiled an extraordinary set of high-resolution images that gave an insight into the plan of the Roman town of Venta Icenorum at Caistor St Edmund ...
