What Are Microwaves?
Microwaves have a range of applications, including communications, radar and, perhaps best known by most people, cooking. Prior to World War II, British radio engineers found that sh...
USTC develops all-optically controlled non-reciprocal multifunctional photonic devices
Breaking this reciprocity in the direction of light transmission is of great significance in classical and quantum information processing. Optical circulators, isolators, directional...
Understanding Mercury’s magnetic tail: Researchers have evidence that might explain the unexpected presence of energetic electrons in Mercury’s magnetic tail
On Mercury, magnetic substorms in the tail are bigger and more rapid than those observed on Earth. Mercury’s magnetic field is 100 times weaker than Earth’s, so it surprised physicis...
Understanding gravity: The nanoscale search for extra dimensions: Scientists use high-sensitivity experiments to probe exotic gravitational force
Scientists have used a pulsed slow neutron beamline to probe the deviation of the inverse square law of gravity below the wavelength of 0.1 nm. The experiment achieved the highest se...
Thermally driven spin current in DNA
Credit: Long Bai An emerging field that has generated a wide range of interest, spin caloritronics, is an offshoot of spintronics that explores how heat currents transport electron ...
The occurrence of magnetism in the universe
A precession driven flow is supposed to power magnetic field self-excitation in a planned liquid metal dynamo experiment at HZDR. Credit: HZDR Flows of molten metal can generate mag...
TESS readies for takeoff
Scientists expect that thousands of these stars will host transiting planets, which they hope to detect through images taken with TESS’s cameras. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Sate...
Swarm tracks elusive ocean magnetism
However, the field generated by tides is tiny – and extremely difficult to measure, but ESA’s Swarm mission has done just this in remarkable detail. Swarm has been used to measure th...
Striking differences in brain morphology between wild and domestic rabbits
The most characteristic feature of domestic animals is their tame behaviour. Secondly, domestic rabbits have a reduced amygdala and an enlarged medial prefrontal cortex. Thirdly, we ...
Spintronics: Controlling magnetic spin with electric fields
The field of spintronics has given rise to technological concepts of spintronic devices, which would run on electron spins, rather than their charge, used by traditional electronics....
Shoebox-sized cube satellite to study Earth’s inner radiation belt
CU Boulder Professor Xinlin Li holds up a model of the CSSWE cube satellite that studied energetic particles in Earth’s magnetosphere. Credit: LASP A NASA-funded cube satellite buil...
Scientists introduce magnetic data storage of the future
Their findings were published recently in the Angewandte Chemie journal. Summarising the project objectives on CORDIS, she added: The potential is huge for SMM systems that would dem...
Scientists discover how brain signals travel to drive language performance: Their results pave the way for the treatment of aphasia and other language disorders
advertisement To see how the LIFG brain region is involved with different neural networks depending on various language tasks, the research team used a technique called transcranial...
Scientists crack 70-year-old mystery of how magnetic waves heat the sun
Scientists have suggested for many years that these waves may play an important role in maintaining the sun’s extremely high temperatures but until now had not been able to prove it....
Research enhances performance of Germany’s new fusion device
Credit: Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics A team of U.S. and German scientists has used a system of large magnetic trim coils designed and delivered by the U.S. Department of E...
Quantum-enhanced magnetometry by phase estimation algorithms with a single artificial atom
Here, Φ i = (i − 1)[δΦ] step + Φ 1 with the index i chosen from the flux-index set I 0 = [1, 161] [δΦ] step ≃ 1.59 × 10−5 Φ 0 , Φ 1 ≃ 0.137 Φ 0 , and discrete time delays τ j = (j − ...
Portable optical clock used to measure gravitation for the first time: For the first time, researchers measure gravitation with a portable optical clock, paving the way for standardised measurement of
Until now, such delicate clocks have been restricted to laboratories at a few major research institutions, however, researchers at PTB have developed a transportable strontium optica...
Old data, new tricks: Fresh results from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft 20 years on
The mission ended in 2003, but newly resurrected data from Galileo’s first flyby of Ganymede is yielding new insights about the moon’s environment – which is unlike any other in the ...
Observation of anisotropic magneto-Peltier effect
Credit: NIMS NIMS and Tohoku University have jointly observed an anisotropic magneto-Peltier effect—a thermoelectric conversion phenomenon in which simple redirection of a charge cu...
Newly-hatched salmon use geomagnetic field to learn which way is up
The Oregon Hatchery Research Center is a collaborative research project of Oregon State University, where Noakes is a professor and senior scientist in the College of Agricultural Sc...
Navigating with the sixth sense: Desert ants sense Earth’s magnetic field
Researchers from the Biocenter of the University of Würzburg have now made the surprising discovery that the desert ant uses the Earth’s magnetic field as orientation cue during thes...
NASA spacecraft discovers new magnetic process in turbulent space
Magnetic reconnection is one of the most important processes in the space – filled with charged particles known as plasma – around Earth. The new discovery found reconnection where i...
NASA’s SDO reveals how magnetic cage on the Sun stopped solar eruption
The work highlights the role of the Sun’s magnetic landscape, or topology, in the development of solar eruptions that can trigger space weather events around Earth. Using data from N...
NASA’s Juno mission provides infrared tour of Jupiter’s north pole
This infrared 3-D image of Jupiter’s north pole was derived from data collected by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Credit: NASA/J...
Nanomotor guided inside a living cell using a magnetic field
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201800429 A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore has developed a type of nanomotor that can be guided inside of a living cell using ...