Sentences with phrase «magnetic north»

A few years ago he added a compass reading that shows magnetic north, to help determine the prevailing wind.

The proposed site is near magnetic North Pole in northwest Canada, but Senator Ted Stevens (R - AL) wants it built at an Alaskan defense lab — which scientists say would greatly reduce its value.

If this explanation is correct, the Sun should similarly lack a clear magnetic north pole, and Balogh and his colleagues are waiting to confirm that this is the case.

During reversals, Earth's field weakens (although it does not disappear entirely), and the direction of magnetic north may vary wildly.

Bird Compasses March 11, 2015 Birds have an amazing, innate ability to sense where magnetic north lies, and scientists think they're closer than ever to understanding the secrets of their natural compass.

Therefore, the spacecraft is moving through a special region of space where magnetic fields are rotated away from true magnetic north.

Nearly 80 years ago, physicist Paul Dirac said it must be possible for magnetic north and south poles to exist separately.

«The original prediction was that neutron star crusts would do the same to their magnetic fields; so if you could walk around on the surface with a compass trying to walk towards magnetic north, you would end up walking around in random directions.

Creative nonfiction writer Susan Schorn delivers a craft talk on «Finding Magnetic North: Revising and Shaping Your Creative Nonfiction.»

These two numbers are closely linked to a shifting magnetic north, but are essential for airports to direct traffic through all the different runways.

But magnetic north doesn't line up perfectly with true north, the point where the Earth's axis hits the surface (and above which the North Star sits).

The robins lacking their nostril - to - brain connection weren't tricked, locating the true and artificial magnetic norths just as well as the controls.

The researchers then exposed the surgically treated and untreated robins to the Earth's natural magnetic field, and also to a field which artificially rotated magnetic north 120 degrees anticlockwise.

Scientists have been taking direct measurements of the field only since 1837, but mariners have been watching magnetic north far longer.

This current fills the core and is the source of tremendous magnetism; its poles, located roughly at the ends of Earth's axis, mark magnetic north and south.

«Spin» is just a physicist's term for the little magnetic north and south poles baked into every electron.

It has flipped quasi-regularly in Earth's past, so that magnetic north becomes magnetic south, and vice versa.

When you select the compass function, the minute hand swings around toward magnetic north and the hour hand toward south.

Magnetic north wanders, and every few hundred thousand years the polarity flips so that a compass would point south instead of north.

The turbulent convection of this outer part of the solar interior gives rise to a «small - scale» dynamo that produces magnetic north and south poles all over the surface of the Sun.

This allows Burton and his expert team of designers (especially production designer Rick Heinrichs who won an Oscar for Burton's Sleepy Hollow in 1999, and costume designer Colleen Atwood who won an Oscar for Burton's Alice in Wonderland in 2010) to recreate The Beat of San Francisco's magnetic North Beach.

Dean DeCocker: Past Magnetic North: Mixed - media sculpture.

In a world that no longer divides so neatly into left and right, East and West, environmentalism has provided a new magnetic north for disorientated politicians, activists, scientists, journalists and society as a whole.

The Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting from northern Canada towards Siberia with a presently accelerating rate.

The world has its mysteries, and one of them is that dogs seem to know where magnetic north is, as shown by their orientation when they relieve themselves.

Upon exiting the heliopause, the local measurements of the magnetic field by Voyager 1, shown here as a compass needle, differed by 40 degrees from the «true magnetic north» estimated to be the direction of the magnetic field in the pristine interstellar medium.

A geomagnetic reversal is a change in the orientation of Earth's magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south become interchanged.

Burda suggests that it sees a ring of «shadow» on its retina that is darkest towards magnetic north, and just like a normal shadow, always appears to be the same distance ahead.

Pass the Spoon is the latest show from Magnetic North (the company behind two sell - out national tours of Walden) and is the recipient of a prestigious...

David Hempleman - Adams is the first man to have reached both the geographic and magnetic North and South poles, as well as climb the highest peaks in all seven continents.

After two years of training and preparation we successfully walked and skied 400 miles to the Magnetic North Pole along with a third team mate, my army buddy Richard Profit, hauling our food and equipment on sleds.

We've never seen a magnetic north pole without its opposite number, but theory demands that these strange monopoles exist.

For every action, there's a reaction; every positive charge has a negative; every magnetic north pole has a south pole.

Auroras are cool, but if you want to have some real fun, position yourself at the magnetic North Pole with a compass.

If science can figure out how to move electrons across silicon, it can teach watchmakers how to tell us the temperature, the weather, the altitude, the day of the week, the direction of magnetic north, and, yes, even the time — all on the face of a single wristwatch.

DOES the Sun have a magnetic north pole?

Some animals can detect this field, which reveals the direction of magnetic north, and use it to navigate (see «Whales and terns turn together»).

You can even specify whether the magnetic heading refers to true north or magnetic north.

As the spacecraft pushed into interstellar space, the compass needle moved ever closer to true magnetic north.

The GPS, compass and accelerometer crammed into today's smartphones pinpoint the phone's location almost anywhere on Earth, establish its orientation relative to magnetic north, and sense its motion up and down, side to side and forwards and backwards.

And NSF didn't get its wish to start construction of a polar cap observatory near the magnetic North Pole.

The ribbon center is the direction of «true magnetic north» for the pristine interstellar magnetic field.

During a reversal, magnetic north and south trade places — an event which, in geologically recent times, occurs about once every million years.