Sentences with phrase «bicoordinate magnetic maps»

Biologist Kenneth Lohmann of the University of North Carolina in the United States, quoted in National Geographic News, says that «It seems they inherited some sort of magnetic map.»

Travis Horton at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, plotted the migratory tracks from each species over a detailed magnetic map of Earth, which shows how the magnetic field's inclination and declination — the angular difference between the field lines and true north — vary from point to point.

Over time they build a more detailed magnetic map by learning to recognise variations in the strength and direction of the field lines, which are angled more steeply towards the poles and flatter at the magnetic equator.

Another scientist examined the inner workings of the sun through the oscillation of sound waves propagating through the solar interior; yet another looked at magnetic maps to chart the shifting flux across the sun.

Because sea turtles use a similar magnetic map, the researchers speculate that many migratory marine animals, such as eels, sharks, and seals, may also navigate using magnetic fields.

All of a sudden we had magnetic maps that looked like geology and helped us see beneath the shallow cover.

The magnetite - mediated mechanism seems to act as part of a magnetic map - or signpost sense, which could provide the animal with information about its geographic position, whereas the vision - mediated magnetic sense seems to be a pure compass sense that is based on radical - pair processes in the birds» eye (s)[for reviews], [see e.g. 8, 9].

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performed a magnetic map of the aircraft's cockpit and verified operational checks to systems while operating ground maintenance equipment

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Juno will spend the next three months getting into position to begin studying what lies beneath Jupiter's thick clouds and mapping the planet's gargantuan magnetic fields.

So much of that is welcoming our darkness, looking at the patterns showing up in our lives, using it as a map to get into our subconscious limiting beliefs, and shifting those to get closer to our authentic essence which is our genuinely magnetic state.

Once again, the birds reoriented themselves to the northwest — suggesting that the magnetic field alone — regardless of smells or other cues, is enough to alter the birds» mental map.

They plan to examine data from other instruments on MAVEN to see if escaping particles map to the same regions where they see reconnected magnetic fields to confirm that reconnection is contributing to Martian atmospheric loss and determine how significant it is.

A lot of research remains in order to map in detail how animals discover and use the Earth's magnetic field.

Juno is mapping Jupiter's gravitational and magnetic fields to better understand the planet's interior structure and measure the mass of the core.

Juno will spend the next 20 months orbiting Jupiter, figuring out how much water vapor hides beneath the clouds, mapping the planet's internal structure and probing its vast magnetic...

18 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines generate a field 60,000 times as intense as the earth's to vibrate the hydrogen atoms in your body; in response, the atoms emit radio waves that are analyzed to produce a map of your insides.

The researchers used these to estimate the magnetic field lines on 1 August over the sun's entire surface and to map all solar events onto these lines.

Sensors placed around the outer sphere and inside the sodium were used to map the magnetic field, while ultrasound beams measured the rate of flow of the fluid using the Doppler effect.

To map the minute landscape of molecules, at scales as tiny as just tenths of a nanometer, and help decipher their functions, structural biologists have long relied on two tools: nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.

Over the past decade, physicists have developed much more detailed maps of the magnetic field within the galaxy, which can deflect charged particles such as protons and nuclei.

He sketched the sunspot contours with scribble and crosshatch, intent mainly on mapping the locus (solar latitude and longitude) of each magnetic outburst and gauging the polarity and field strength (in gauss) of every sunspot.

During Cassini's two close Enceladus flybys this spring, its Visual Infrared Mapping Spectrometer detected strong signatures in Saturn's magnetic field around the moon.

After puzzling it over and practically wallpapering his house with seafloor topography and magnetic field maps, in 1993 Klimley hypothesized that somehow their oblong - shaped heads can sense tiny changes in the magnetic lines created by volcanic lava flows.

Through a «mapping» performed with magnetic resonance, they identified the affected part and the type and size of the lesion, and analyzed the connectivity between the different areas of the brain.

Much like scientists who use topographical data to study Earth, solar physicists map out the Sun's magnetic features, or topology, to understand how these forces guide solar activity.

Both electrical mapping with the implanted electrodes and the more conventional functional whole - brain imaging in a magnetic scanner identified a cluster of regions in the FFA in both cortical hemispheres of Blackwell's brain that responded strongly to faces.

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With that objective in mind, the NASA team has programmed the sensor - laden Juno to measure the chemical composition of the planet's atmosphere and to map its gravitational and magnetic fields.

The next visitor to Mercury, a Japanese - European satellite called BepiColombo, could settle the issue if it comes up with better global maps of the crustal magnetic fields after arriving in 2024.

The giant gray doughnut she's now being slid into is only needed to create a uniform magnetic field; it's the brain's deviations from that field that the birdcage maps.

Physicists aim to solve this mystery by mapping the coronal loops: streams of hot, glowing plasma that follow magnetic field lines...

Bird expert Henrik Mouritsen says night - migrating songbirds find their way northward using a combination of enhanced night vision and an internal compass that can sense and create a visual map of the invisible magnetic field surrounding the earth.

Oncologists at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center are the first in San Diego to meld magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology with a traditional ultrasound prostate exam to create a three - dimensional map of the prostate that allows physicians to view growths that were previously undetectable.

Using the SEQUOIA instrument at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source allowed the investigators to map out an image of the crystal's magnetic motions in both space and time.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory, launched by NASA in February, returns 16 - megapixel images of the sun on a nearly continuous basis, splits the sun's emissions into its individual wavelengths, tracks the propagation of waves across the sun's surface and maps the ever shifting solar magnetic field.

That's good news for Anderson and his colleague Colin Waters of the University of Newcastle in Australia, who had figured out how to use Iridium data to map the polar magnetic fields.

This diagram maps the temperature and magnetic field strength at which the material's magnetoresistance turns on and then saturates.

Humans use GPS devices and Google Maps to guide them home, but loggerhead turtles still prefer a magnetic compass.

To make the map they used the known strength and direction of the Earth's magnetic field everywhere within the planet's mantle and crust.

The team used a novel magnetic resonance imaging technique, called apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps, which directly assessed the movements and dynamics of the water in the intervertebral disk and other spinal structures.

Geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti worked with researchers and wildlife experts to collect billions of data points, taken from digital tags on humpback whales, magnetic fields tracking badgers, QR codes mapping an individual ant, and more.

For the last decade, neuroscientists have been using the non-invasive brain - mapping technique functional called magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to examine activity patterns in human and animal brains in the resting state in order to figure out how different parts of the brain are connected and to identify the changes that occur in neurological and psychiatric diseases.

External devices can then integrate the data to generate incredibly detailed maps showing the slightest changes in light, vibration, electrical currents, magnetic fields, chemical concentrations and other environmental conditions.

Any magnetic field it encounters changes the size of the vibrations, thereby giving a way of mapping the magnetism of the sample.

Cassini will, of course, take close - up pictures of Saturn's rings and clouds, but it will also map the planet's gravity and magnetic fields, giving scientists a window into Saturn's interior.

This enabled them to map the strength and structure of the intervening galaxy's magnetic field.

The HCP seeks to map brain connectivity at a macroscopic scale, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

To navigate, birds require a «map» (to tell them home is south, for example) and a «compass» (to tell them where south is), with the sun and the earth's magnetic field being the preferred compass systems.