Researchers at the American space agency announce that they've found a way of using the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to gain a deeper insight into the nature of solar magnetic fields. The probe may even be used to map out these magnetic fields in detail.
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19 January 2012
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A group of investigators at the University of Cambridge announces the development of a new control technique that allows physicists to monitor and influence the most fundamental aspect of any electronic circuit, which is the way in which individual electrons move through it.
The amazing degree of control the team... |
21 September 2011
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Science-fiction is indeed starting to become reality, like many predicted years ago. Recently, scientists developed an invisibility cloak of sorts, that works for sounds emitted underwater. The finding is important, as it could be used to make submarines completely “invisible” to enemy sonars. The new aco... |
14 January 2011
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Surgeons use very thin, and very sharp, blades called scalpels in order to perform surgery. The small width of the blade ensures that they can precisely target whatever tumor or group of cells they are looking to eradicate, but it has over the years become obvious that increased accuracy is needed. For example, in br... |
6 April 2010
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The factors underlining droplet dynamics have been an object of intense scrutiny for physicists. One of the most important goals in this research was figuring out how ultrasound waves traveling over a surface can influence liquid droplets, eventually forcing them to move. Experts hypothesized that a wide array of phy... |
1 April 2010
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The fact that butterflies had ears remained a mystery to science until 1912, when the first such structures were ever identified. Since then, researchers have analyzed them on all sides, and have discovered that the organs, far from being similar in all butterfly species, were in fact extremely diverse and different.... |
26 October 2009
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have recently managed to create an innovative, new device that may have the ability to boost the power of ultrasound medical devices and submarine radars by more than 800 percent. The new acoustic hyperlens is ... |
26 October 2009
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For over 60 years, researchers have wondered why the nose of the Bourret's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus paradoxolophus) is so abnormally large for the animal's size. In a new scientific study that saw the participation of Virginia Tech faculty members, it was proven that the bat actually developed its nose no... |
8 July 2009
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Researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology (IIT) have managed to create a sonic black hole, a device based on Einstein-Bose condensates that is able to trap sound waves, basically acting in very much the same way a cosmic black hole does when absorbing visible light from the electromagnetic spectrum. The devic... |
18 June 2009
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Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UI) have managed to create a new type of metamaterial that is able to guide sound waves through very tiny structures. The innovation could have significant applications in the field of medicine, as well as for new military devices. Doctors could use it ... |
16 June 2009
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