Sentences with phrase «like magnetic particles»

A HAND - HELD scanner containing hedgehog - like magnetic particles will soon be helping to monitor the performance of British athletes.

Not exact matches

The inner region sends out clock - like pulses of radiation and tsunamis of charged particles embedded in magnetic fields.

The twisting motion causes the photons to move like charged particles in a magnetic field, even though there is no actual magnet present.

But how they come together is of interest as the particles first gather into a disorganized aggregated cluster and then into a crystal - like regimen as the magnetic field becomes stronger.

«Instead of a prolonged, comet - like tail, this rough bubble - shape of the heliosphere is due to the strong interstellar magnetic field — much stronger than what was anticipated in the past — combined with the fact that the ratio between particle pressure and magnetic pressure inside the heliosheath is high,» said Kostas Dialynas, a space scientist at the Academy of Athens in Greece and lead author on the study.

At the same time, an electric field aligned along the current is responsible for converting magnetic into kinetic energy, firing out particles like a slingshot.

They are used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, magnetic levitation trains and particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider.

The future of data storage is likely to be found in nanometer scale, stable magnetic whirls called skyrmions, which behave like particles in magnetic thin films.

An intriguing aspect of axion - like particles is their ability to convert into gamma rays and back again when they interact with strong magnetic fields.

The scientists begin by assuming that particles with lower energies take longer to travel through turbulent magnetic fields, much like a lazy moth takes longer to cross a windy valley than a quick bee.

The blackhole acts like a flywheel: As matter falls into it and increases itsspin, it stores energy; it releases energy again and slows down a bitas the magnetic field lines accelerate charged particles.

A research team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has confirmed magnetic signatures likely related to Majorana fermions — elusive particles that could be the basis for a quantum bit, or qubit, in a two - dimensional graphene - like material, alpha - ruthenium trichloride.

This oscillation is much like a spring moving back and forth, but unlike a spring, moving magnetic fields cause an unstable environment, setting charged particles moving and initiating electric currents.

The magnetic field is shaped to pull the gadolinium downward so metal particles push the cells upward, creating a buoyant force just like the one that floats a boat.

A global magnetic field might have funnelled enough energy into the atmosphere to push lighter particles escape into space, like steam from a pot of boiling water, for example.

The biomarkers stick to the antibodies on both and act like glue, causing the silver nanoparticles to accumulate on the outside of the magnetic particles.

In the 1930s, physicists suggested that a strong magnetic field can polarise light, like glare bouncing off a window — provided there are particles to nudge it.

The magnetite particles are thought to act like microscopic compass needles, relaying information to the nervous system by straining or twisting receptors in cells as they attempt to align with the Earth's magnetic field.

The magnetic poles on a neutron star act like fountains, an escape valve for charged particles that get trapped in the star's enormously strong magnetic field.

The influence from direct radiation would be similar, but the planets with a strong magnetic field would react much differently to charge particles than a planet like Mars with a weaker field.

Ganymede has a weak magnetic field, and, like on Earth, this generates an aurora - the glow created when high - speed subatomic particles slam into the extremely thin atmosphere.

March 23, 2015 - This is due to the complex effect of metastable state of the magnetic dynamic nanoparticles and the possible relaxation characteristic of the formed chain - like structure when decreasing the external magnetic field, the Brownian dynamics of particles...

Previous research had identified only cases in which bacteria as a whole, filled with magnetic particles, are being oriented like compass needles for swimming in the right direction.

The influence from direct radiation would be similar, but the planets with a strong magnetic field would react much differently to charge particles than a planet like Mars with a weaker field.

As I understand it, the basic theory is that incoming charged particles provide additional cloud condensation nucleii (like the cloud chambers used as detectors in early subatomic physics), that the rate of incoming particles is modulated by the magnetic fields of the sun and earth, and that therefore the amount of cloud cover varies with the particle flux, which in turn drives climate, so we can stop worrying about CO2.

The magnetic field strength deflects more or less galactic cosmic rays which are really very high energy charged particles and the interaction between charge and magnetic field strength deflects them just like the magnets on the yoke of a cathode ray tube deflects an electron beam.

Article by Phil Livermore, Associate Professor of geophysics, University of Leeds and Jon Mound, Associate Professor of Geophysics, University of Leeds The Earth's magnetic field surrounds our planet like an invisible force field — protecting life from harmful solar radiation by deflecting charged particles away.

«Extremely productive» because a great vision acts like a magnetic field from the future that aligns all the little iron particle artists to point to «North» without having to see it.