magnetism
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Astronomers Spot Most Distant Galactic Magnetic Field Ever With Giant Desert Telescope
A team of scientists looking at a faraway galaxy using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected that galaxy’s magnetic field, making it the most distant galactic magnetic field yet detected. It’s not known how early magnetic fields formed around galaxies, so the new finding importantly pushes back that timeline. The astronomers used ALMA…
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Sound Reactive Bluetooth Speaker Uses Magnetic Ferrofluid to Become a Real-Life Winamp Visualiser
Years before the iPod was a thing, many of us relied on an app called Winamp to listen to MP3s. It was free, it was simple, but most of us used it for its visualisers that created complex, trippy animations synced to our music. Artist Dakd Jung has created a real-life version of those visualisers…
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What Are Venus Flytraps Doing With Magnetic Fields?
A team of researchers recently strapped a dismembered carnivorous plant to a sensitive instrument in Berlin, in a room that shuts out the world’s magnetic noise. It was a Venus flytrap’s “jaw” — really a specialised leaf — and when the team turned up the heat, the jaw summoned the energy to try to close.…
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Scientists In Florida Make The World’s Strongest Magnet
Scientists have broken the record for the strongest continuous magnetic field, according to a new research paper.