Sentences with phrase «created by magnetic fields»

Space may seem empty, but it's actually a dynamic place populated with near - invisible matter, and dominated by forces, in particular those created by magnetic fields.
field (in physics) A region in space where certain physical effects operate, such as magnetism (created by a magnetic field), gravity (by a gravitational field) or mass (by a Higgs field).

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The team analysed data gathered over seven years by the international Cassini probe, and found that the interactions between Titan's atmosphere, and the solar magnetic field and radiation, create a wind of hydrocarbons and nitriles being blown away from its polar regions into space.
The researchers found that by tuning certain dimensions of the microfluidic lattice, they were able to direct billions of microbes to align and swim in the same direction, much the way electrons circulate in the same direction when they create a magnetic field.
The signal travels between the wires because the magnetic field formed by the first wire — the transmitter — creates an electric field in space, which in turn creates a magnetic field, and so on, moving outward at the speed of light.
One certainty is that Europa is bathed in radiation created by Jupiter's powerful magnetic field.
The earth's magnetic field is created by electric currents in an ocean of molten iron at its core.
A spinning magnetic field created by four coils spins the particle.
Manufactured in bulk, low - cost Sprites could be deployed and networked by the hundreds or thousands to create space - based sensor arrays of unprecedented breadth, with each craft so lightweight that it could operate without propellant, shifting or maintaining its orbit solely through the radiation pressure of starlight or the forces imparted by a planet's magnetic field.
Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which measures the anatomy and structural integrity of the brain, and magnetoencephalography (MEG), which measures magnetic fields created by the brain's electrical activity, were used to track potential age - related differences as groups of younger and older adults performed a memory task.
«Comets carry with them a magnetic field created by streaming charged particles that interact with the solar wind,» Schultz said.
By applying a magnetic field to semiconducting nanowires laid across a superconductor, you can move electrons along these wires, creating two points in space that each mimic half an electron.
An array of wire coils generates a magnetic field and when a phone disrupts that field, MagMIMO senses it and focuses on the phone by creating a slightly different field with each coil.
The sun's cast - off electrons and ions move so fast they can easily be deflected by electric and magnetic fields to create what Winglee terms a mini-magnetosphere — with a greater surface area than that of projected solar sails.
The shock waves created by a supernova explosion, astronomers theorized, could generate enormous magnetic fields capable of accelerating electrons, protons, and other ions to nearly the speed of light.
Naval researchers, Manheimer recounts, attempted to use plasma antenna technology aimed by magnetic fields to create a more precise «agile mirror» array.
Jupiter does not have a molten metal core; instead, its magnetic field is created by a core of compressed liquid metallic hydrogen.
Li's team showed that during CRAND, cosmic rays entering Earth's atmosphere collide with neutral atoms, creating a splash that produces charged particles, including electrons, that become trapped by Earth's magnetic field.
The rapid rotation created by mass transfer between the two stars appears necessary to generate the ultra-strong magnetic field and then a second mass transfer phase allows the magnetar - to - be to slim down sufficiently so that it does not collapse into a black hole at the moment of its death.
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.
They were also able to compensate for the magnetic field fluctuations created by the patients» breathing.
It will be surrounded by superconducting niobium coils that create magnetic fields 100,000 times as powerful as Earth's.
To create liftoff, the Slide required a powerful magnetic field on the ground to repulse the board's interior superconductor, which was cooled by liquid nitrogen.
Such charged particles twirl and gyrate around the magnetic field lines created by the vast magnetic systems that surround the sun and Earth.
The ability to create new forms of matter by simply tuning a magnetic field presents a powerful new tool to study basic physics, she says.
Researchers of MESA +, the research institute for nanotechnology of the University of Twente, in cooperation with researchers of the University of Strasbourg and Eindhoven University of Technology, are the first to successfully create perfect one - dimensional molecular wires of which the electrical conductivity can almost entirely be suppressed by a weak magnetic field at room temperature.
The researchers can create even more clones by applying a magnetic field.
Through developing several new technologies including the conversion of the high - temperature superconductor developed by NIMS in 1988 into the form of wire material, the research team recently created the NMR system equipped with world's highest magnetic field at 1,020 MHz.
By passing through the pulsar's magnetic field at such a rapid pace, these companions could create the swoosh by disrupting the radio signal we see (arxiv.org/abs/1607.01737v1By passing through the pulsar's magnetic field at such a rapid pace, these companions could create the swoosh by disrupting the radio signal we see (arxiv.org/abs/1607.01737v1by disrupting the radio signal we see (arxiv.org/abs/1607.01737v1).
By creating an artificial solar wind and firing it at a centimeter - scale magnetic field, they demonstrated that a thin electric - field layer created by the collision of the solar wind with the magnetic field is up to the job of deflecting high - speed protonBy creating an artificial solar wind and firing it at a centimeter - scale magnetic field, they demonstrated that a thin electric - field layer created by the collision of the solar wind with the magnetic field is up to the job of deflecting high - speed protonby the collision of the solar wind with the magnetic field is up to the job of deflecting high - speed protons.
Similarly, changes in the ambient magnetic field are created by submarines passing below the surface of the ocean, and the U.S. Navy is very interested in SQUIDs for submarine detection.
Since the brain operates electrically, one can, by sensing the magnetic fields created by neurological currents, monitor the activity of the brain — or the heart.
High above Earth, two giant rings of energetic particles trapped by the planet's magnetic field create a dynamic and harsh environment that holds many mysteries — and can affect spacecraft traveling around Earth.
This period covers three of the Sun's 11 - year activity cycles, which see fluctuations in the rate at which energetic particles are created by the interaction between the Sun's magnetic field and its hot, highly charged outer layers.
«We are actually magnetically evoking behavioral responses in animals by creating a cell that can sense magnetic fields.
Proton density after laser impact on a spherical solid density target: irradiated by an ultra-short, high intensity laser (not in picture) the intense electro - magnetic field rips electrons apart from their ions and creates a plasma.
The coil was connected to a capacitor, which discharged an electric current to create a split - second magnetic pulse inside the coil, about 10 times weaker than the magnetic field generated by an MRI machine in a hospital.
A team of scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and led by Northern Illinois University physicist and Argonne materials scientist Zhili Xiao has created a new material, called «rewritable magnetic charge ice,» that permits an unprecedented degree of control over local magnetic fields and could pave the way for new computing technologies.
They plan to make a «smart material» by adding chemical groups that respond to incident light, magnetic field, or applied potential, leading to external control of the transformation that creates pores in the otherwise dense material.
The peroxide is created by the intense radiation processing of Europa's surface ice that comes from the moon's location within Jupiter's strong magnetic field.
Jupiter has some serious radiation belts for Juno to contend with, thanks to the massive magnetic field created by the gas giant.
The researchers believe that tidal forces created by the gravitational pull of the giant planet may have interrupted the magnetic field of the star.
Our planet's magnetic field is generated by molten iron swirling around in the planet's outer core around a smaller, solid core — a process that creates a self - sustaining geomagnetic dynamo.
Rice scientists create microscopic «swimmers» controlled by a magnetic field What are those tiny spheres doing as they move across that slide?
By creating a magnetic field that interacts with the nuclear spins of carbon atoms in the proteins, NMR measures a trait known as chemical shift for some of the individual atoms in the sample, which reveals how those atoms are connected.
Radio astronomers discovered intense belts of radiation surrounding Jupiter created by electrons trapped in its powerful magnetic field — 10x the Earth's!
Subsequently, matter from the debris of the merger that swirls rapidly around the newly created new black hole has been modelled as amplifying the strength of the combined magnetic field left over by the neutron stars after their merger over the next 11 milliseconds.
Based on these observations and experiments, Harker and Pevtsov conclude that the observed magnetic transient is not an artifact created by the SDO / HMI observation process, but instead represents a real change in the vector magnetic field; since the active region was located so close to the solar limb, this suggests that the transient manifested in the horizontal component of the magnetic field (relative to the solar surface).
Jupiter's giant, spectacular polar aurorae are created by the effects of the magnetic field of the planet combining with gases from the volcanic moon Io.
Plasma churns and pulls in different directions around the sun, and the enormous heat produced by the nuclear fusion at the core plays along these currents to create magnetic fields.
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