News articles tagged with 'magnet'
Heavy metals open path to high temperature nanomagnets
— 29 Mar 2011 15:43 | TechnologyHow would you like to store all the films ever made on a device the size of an I-phone? Magnets made of just a few metallic atoms could make it possible to build radically smaller storage…
Mini disks for data storage
— 14 Mar 2011 20:33 | TechnologyTiny magnets organise themselves in vortices in the researchers' mini disks. The individual magnets can twist either in a clockwise or a counterclockwise direction in the disk. These…
Magnetically controlled pill could boost body's absorption of drugs
— 18 Jan 2011 16:35 | HealthDo you want that in a pill or a shot? A pill, thank you, but most patients never have that choice. The problem with administering many medications orally is that a pill often will not…
Rice physicists discover ultrasensitive microwave detector
— 9 Dec 2010 17:06 | PhysicsPhysicists from Rice University and Princeton University have discovered how to use one of the information technology industry's mainstay materials - gallium arsenide semiconductors…
Scientists create highly ordered artificial spin ice using nanotechnology
— 30 Nov 2010 21:52 | TechnologyAn international team of researchers has succeeded in creating artificial spin ice in a state of thermal equilibrium for the first time, allowing them to examine the precise configuration…
Putting a bull's-eye on the flu: Paper details influenza's structure for future drug targeting
— 23 Oct 2010 16:57 | HealthBeating the flu has always been tough, but it has gotten even more difficult in recent years. Two of the four antiviral drugs used to treat a nasty case of the influenza A virus no…
Putting a bull's-eye on the flu: Detailing influenza's structure for drug targeting
— 23 Oct 2010 16:15 | HealthBeating the flu is already tough, but it has become even harder in recent years - the influenza A virus has mutated so that two antiviral drugs don't slow it down anymore…
Study of tiny magnets may advance their use in microelectronics
— 22 Oct 2010 17:46 | TechnologyIn the world of the very small, researchers at Shanxi University in China have announced progress in understanding the single-molecule magnet, which combines the classical macroscale…
AMS experiment takes off for Kennedy Space Centre
— 19 Aug 2010 16:17 | PhysicsThe Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), an experiment that will search for antimatter and dark matter in space, leaves CERN next Tuesday on the next leg of its journey to the International…
Magnets trump metallics
— 9 Jul 2010 09:46 | TechnologyMetallic carbon nanotubes show great promise for applications from microelectronics to power lines because of their ballistic transmission of electrons. But who knew magnets could stop…