The magnetic dipoles formed chains, i.e. the north pole of one island pointed to the south pole of the next island. "This result was surprising," says Zabel. In the lattice, ...

Two German physicists have reimagined how to create powerful and uniform magnetic fields using compact permanent magnets. By ...

Physicists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have found out how tiny islands of magnetic material align themselves when sorted on a regular lattice -- by measurements at BESSY II. Contrary to ...

From the slopes of these three lines, I can get three different magnetic dipole moments. They are: Traditional Compass: μ = 0.2207 A*m 2; iPhone Compass: μ = 0.0525 A*m 2; xSensor: μ = 0.3077 A ...

Every breath we take in contains 21% oxygen, the gas that makes life on Earth possible. Oxygen, in its combined oxide state, ...

In hard-drive technology, memory bits are stored as magnetized areas in a thin magnetic film. A magnetic dipole with the north pole up is 1, for example, while one with the north pole down is 0. IBM ...

Scientists convert Earth's magnetic field collapse from 41,000 years ago into chilling audio, revealing ancient cosmic ...

Instead, it consists of a gradual transition from a dipole to a complex magnetic field, then to a reversed dipole over the entire 11-year solar cycle. "In short, there is no specific 'moment' in ...

Every so often, Earth's magnetic field flips on its head, turning the magnetic North Pole into the South Pole and vice versa. It last happened 780,000 years ago, and is predicted to occur again in ...

It is well known that the electron has a magnetic dipole moment, which is a result of the particle’s “spin”, or intrinsic angular momentum. However, time reversal symmetry – the requirement that ...