Sentences with phrase «magnetic field working»

The pulsar's fast rotation and strong magnetic field work together to accelerate electrons and other particles to very high energies.

Not exact matches

It worked like the nozzle on a garden hose, except his version was invisible, regulating the flow of ions with magnetic fields.

According to the new work, Mars» magnetotail is formed when magnetic fields carried by the solar wind join with the magnetic fields embedded in the Martian surface in a process called magnetic reconnection.

For this theory to work, the beams released by black holes would have to have strong, self - generated magnetic fields and the rotation of particles around the fields would then give off powerful bursts of gamma ray radiation.

MRIs work by tapping into an astonishing phenomenon: When placed in a powerful magnetic field, the hydrogen atoms in water molecules behave like small bar magnets.

How this dynamo was initiated and how it works is mysterious, but it seems that the circulation of liquid metal through a magnetic field (which must have begun eons ago) causes a feedback loop of electricity and magnetism and unleashes a powerful electric current hundreds of miles wide.

«The sensors can detect disturbances in the surrounding magnetic field, including the magnetic field above them, with a range extending several metres,» adds research assistant Haibin Gao who is working on the sensor technology as part of Hartmann's team.

Their work holds promise for applications such as miniaturized gyroscopes and torsional sensors to measure magnetic field, which can have significant industrial and consumer impact.

If the experiment works, Lathrop's team will be able to study the forces that drive Earth's dynamo and determine what might happen to our magnetic field in the future.

In addition, the DCRS works at a low magnetic field environment.

His work suggested that most birds can sense the Earth's magnetic field, although many of his peers refused to believe it.

Given that cows position themselves using Earth's magnetic field, he wondered if something similar was at work.

A team of metrologists scanned the plasma containment chamber, or stellarator (as in, «this thing works like a star»), that uses magnetic fields to confine the super-hot plasma within the reactor at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab in sections, then stitched more than 20 of them together in a seamless mosaic.

A: I'm working on using solid - state defects in diamonds as magnetic field sensors, with the goal of using them as little nanoscale MRI machines that can study the structure and dynamics of single biological molecules (e.g., proteins).

Reviewing this recent work in the Dec. 4 Science, planetary scientists Benjamin Weiss of MIT and Sonia Tikoo of the University of California, Berkeley conclude that this magnetic field originated from flowing material inside the moon.

With the new work, the blind mole rat joins the small league of animalsincluding birds, fish and turtlesthat uses an internal compass to read the earths magnetic field.

And so they made a magnetic worm gear, and for that you would have to have magnetic fields be completely perpendicular to each other and still interact, and I had no idea how that could work.

The material the scientists worked with, zirconium pentatelluride, has a surprising trait: When placed in parallel electric and magnetic fields, it responds with an imbalance in the number of right - and left - handed particles — a chiral imbalance.

INEL's system, which should be working by the end of next year, monitors changes in the Earth's magnetic field caused by metal objects passing through it.

Robert Bossio is currently working on his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry / high resolution - high mass accuracy mass spectrometry at Florida State University under Alan Marshall at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

As a postdoc in the tokamak turbulence theory group, I am currently involved in further developing our numerical methods, and I continue my work on the influence of magnetic field shape in tokamaks such as ASDEX Upgrade.

The shocking discovery that Mercury has a strong magnetic field led to three working hypotheses.

Wireless power transfer works by having a transmitter coil generate a magnetic field; a receiver coil then draws energy from that magnetic field.

ARPES also does not work in a magnetic field, which can greatly alter electronic properties inside a material.

It works much as a compass needle aligns with Earth's magnetic field.

NMR works by placing the sample of the protein to be studied inside a device with a strong magnetic field, and observing how they respond to different radio frequencies.

This work opens the path to new models that allow better understanding and prediction of the properties of the magnetic field of celestial bodies.

«When we apply a specific external magnetic field, the magnetization in these discs creates whirls,» said Dr. Benjamin Krüger working in the group of Professor Mathias Kläui at the Institute of Physics at JGU.

Researchers from Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands and the US will work on one probe, to be launched in 1997, that will study the solar corona and magnetic fields.

This is how the identification of smallest magnetic fields with diamond sensors works: in the tiny diamond tip, two adjacent carbon atoms are being removed and one of the resulting vacancies is replaced by a nitrogen atom.

Migrating birds navigate by sensing Earth's magnetic field, but the exact mechanisms at work are unclear.

Mimicking the twisted magnetic fields and fast - moving plasma in these 20,000 - mile - wide maelstroms required a month of work on a supercomputer capable of 76 trillion calculations per second.

The work that had purportedly thrown the decades - old prevailing theory on the generation of Earth's magnetic field out the window claimed that thermal convection could not drive magnetic - field generation.

Scientists working in a «solar wind tunnel» in the lab have now shown that, in fact, it isn't the magnetic field that deflects the rock - darkening protons of the solar wind.

So - called type I superconductors can repel a magnetic field but lose their superconductivity if the field exceeds a certain limit; a theory explaining how they work won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics.

She was assisted by co-authors Thomas Neuberger, assistant professor of biomedical engineering in Penn State's Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, working with the Penn State's High - Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility, and Kate Anthony, research technician in animal science.

The work of Sinova and his colleagues shows, that it is possible to do so using electric fields rather than magnetic ones.

Other researchers have searched for materials where electric fields can mimic the effects of a magnetic field, but finding materials where this effect is strong enough and still works at room temperature has proven difficult.

Budker, who works on sensitive magnetic field detectors, and Folman, who builds «atom chips» to probe and manipulate atoms, focused in this work on using these magnetometers to study new materials.

The work started when Soluyanov and Dai were visiting Bernevig in Princeton in November 2014 and the discussion turned to strange unexpected behavior of certain metals in magnetic fields (Nature 514, 205 - 208, 2014, doi: 10.1038 / nature13763).

The expanding magnetic field can be considered the wall to be worked on, but as it is not a physical boundary, no heat is transferred.

The new work shows that materials hosting a type - II Weyl fermion have mixed behavior: While for some directions of magnetic fields the resistivity increases just like in normal metals, for other directions of the fields, the resistivity can decrease like in the Weyl semimetals, offering possible technological applications.

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.

When the electric fields within the plasma are removed, none of the electrons are trapped in the plasma system leaving the electrons free to interact with the confining magnetic wall: the plasma pressure force does work on the magnetic boundary.

The levitation trick works because giant magnetic fields slightly distort the orbits of electrons in the frog's atoms.

They have overcome the delay in switching magnetic fields by cutting the magnet into a series of slices, each insulated from the next, so that it effectively works as a number of magnets.

Earlier work by Kenneth Lohmann of the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, and his colleagues had found that eastern Florida's loggerhead sea turtles sense magnetic fields.

Ruth Bamford of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, and colleagues have now shown how such magnetic fields might work, which could help spaceship builders devise magnetic shielding to protect astronauts from harmful radiation.

New work from Carnegie's Peter Driscoll suggests Earth's ancient magnetic field was significantly different than the present day field, originating from several poles rather than the familiar two.

Balents adds that further work is needed to confirm this result, but says «this is clearly an exciting and important measurement, which I hope will be pursued further by extending the frequency and magnetic field range in the future.»