Magnetic field
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Energetic gamma rays spotted from 'microquasar'...photons are produced, Tavani says. The gamma rays could be generated when charged particles are accelerated by strong magnetic fields around the stellar remnant. They could also be created when electrons travelling close to the speed... In this article: Cygnus X-3, Photon, Speed of light, Electron, NASA, Neutron, and Magnetic field |
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Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories | 17 hours ago
Blog - The Chemistry of Thanksgiving
...students learn that "burn...volts" makes no sense. doanwon : My first thought is whenever the magnetic field aligns the coil, it will exert a force parallel... plasticdoc : This is just one subject which could be used to prevent boredom...
In this article: Cancer
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Popular Science | 1 day ago
Superconducting Magnetic Heat Shield Could Protect Spacecraft During Reentry
...haven't arrived just yet, but this magnetic heat shield could do nicely in the meantime. European researchers have created a magnetic field technology that can protect spacecraft from fiery atmospheric temperatures during reentry, and...
In this article: Superconducting, European Space Agency, NASA, Mars, Europe, and U.S.
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New Scientist - Latest Headlines | 1 day ago
Dark power: Grand designs for interstellar travel
...inspired by an audacious spacecraft proposed by the American physicist Robert Bussard in 1960. Bussard's "ramjet" design used magnetic fields generated by the craft to scoop up the tenuous gas of interstellar space. Instead of using...
In this article: Speed of light, Proxima Centauri, Cosmology, Nuclear fusion, Hydrogen, and New York University
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The Register | 1 day ago
Superconductor forcefield to shield re-entering spacecraft?
...fur Luft- und Raumfahrt), the European Space Agency and Euro aerospace megacorp EADS Astrium. The proposed test module would use a magnetic field generated by superconducting magnets to deflect the superhot plasma which results when a...
In this article: Flight International, Superconductor, Space Shuttle, European Space Agency, and NATO
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Medical News Today | 1 day ago
Australian First MRI Incubator To Improve Outcomes For Newborns With Brain Impairment
This enables babies to lie undisturbed in a safe and warm environment while a non-invasive image of the brain is recorded. A safe magnetic field is used to create the images. Internationally regarded perinatal researcher, Professor Paul...
In this article: Cerebral palsy, University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, and Medical advice
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The Huffington Post | 3 days ago
Eric Lurio: TV Everywhere! Or Big Brother: The Beta Version
...complains. But here's where things get complicated. The satellite signals travel along the same magnetic field everything else does, so if it weren't scrambled it would be under the same rules as analog broadcast stations, more on that...
In this article: IPod, Electromagnetic field, Google, Big Brother, Sugar, Twitter, AT&T, and Steve Jobs
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LiveDaily News | 7 days ago
Magnetic Fields get 'Realism' on road
Indie-pop veterans The Magnetic Fields [ tickets ] have mapped a mid-winter headlining tour in support of the group's forthcoming studio album, "Realism." The tour kicks off Feb. 4 in Washington, DC, and will hit 15 cities, with...
In this article: The Magnetic Fields, George Washington University, John Woo, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Opera House, and Washington, DC
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U.S. News & World Report | November 18, 2009
Our Sun May Not be Ideal for Alien Life
...(SN: 12/20/08, p. 16), partially because the stars are so small. But M dwarf stars have other problems. Their high surface magnetic fields dump energy into their outer layers, heating the gas there and producing stellar flares. This...
In this article: Carbon, Villanova University, University of Texas at Arlington, and MIT
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Huffington Post | November 18, 2009
Jane Shure: Palin's Magnetic Field
Read More: Alaska, Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Going Rogue, Oprah, Oprah Winfrey, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Going Rogue, Politics News "Give Palin credit. She has a gift for attracting attention," says Allison Steele, a reporter for...
In this article: Sarah Palin, Oprah Winfrey, Newt Gingrich, Philadelphia Inquirer, Alaska, and Political philosophy
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Science Blog - | November 17, 2009
EIT waves and coronal magnetic field diagnosis
...were originally explained as the magnetoacoustic waves, i.e., sound waves coupled with the magnetic field. Such a model was also used to estimate the magnetic field in the low corona. However, the magnetoacoustic wave model cannot account for...
In this article: Nanjing University, China, E mail, Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, and Kinetic energy
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Magnetic fields surround magnetic materials and electric currents and are detected by the force they exert on other magnetic materials and moving electric charges. The magnetic field at any given point is specified by both a direction and a magnitude (or strength); as such it is a vector field.
For the physics of magnetic materials, see magnetism and magnet, more specifically ferromagnetism, paramagnetism, and diamagnetism. For constant magnetic fields, such as are generated by magnetic materials and steady currents, see magnetostatics. A changing magnetic field generates an electric field and a changing electric field results in a magnetic field. (See electromagnetism.)
In view of special relativity, the electric and magnetic fields are two interrelated aspects of a single object, called the electromagnetic field. A pure electric field in one reference frame is observed as a combination of both an electric field and a magnetic field in a moving reference frame.
In modern physics, the magnetic (and electric) fields are understood to be due to a photon field; in the language of the Standard Model the electromagnetic force is mediated by photons. Most often this microscopic description is not needed because the simpler classical theory covered in this article is sufficient; the difference is negligible under most circumstances.
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