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- An invisible energy emitted by a magnet. Same as flux.
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- iMetal for iPhone 1.0.1 (Mobile)
- iMetal for iPhone is the best metal detector for iPhone 3GS. Amaze all your friends by converting your iPhone into a metal detector and give them another reason to buy the new iPhone. iMetal for iPhone uses the magnetic detector and compass in iPhone 3GS to measure the surrounding magnetic...
- Software downloads 2009-11-11
- Scientists replicate the physics of a stellar jet in laboratory
- Astronomers will tell you that among the most beautiful structures observed in the Universe are the intricate jets of matter speeding away from accreting stars, such as young proto-stars and stellar mass black holes. But they have a hard time explaining it. A pair of professors the University of Rochester...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- BiotSavart 4.0.17 (Windows)
- BiotSavart calculates the magnetic field resulting from general 3-D configurations of current-carrying conductors. It has proven useful in the design of superconducting and copper coil systems. Conductor types include current loop, thin and thick solenoid, racetrack coil, and filamentary wire of arbitrary path. The magnetic field can be calculated along...
- Software downloads 2008-12-06
- BiotSavart 4.0.17 (Mac)
- BiotSavart calculates the magnetic field resulting from general 3-D configurations of current-carrying conductors. It has proven useful in the design of superconducting and copper coil systems. Conductor types include current loop, thin and thick solenoid, racetrack coil, and filamentary wire of arbitrary path. The magnetic field can be calculated along...
- Software downloads 2008-10-26
- Ghostly ring found circling dead star
- An international team of scientists has found a strange ring around a dead star by using images taken by NASA's Spitzer space telescope. This star, called SGR 1900+14, belongs to a class of objects known as magnetars. According to NASA, a magnetar is 'a highly magnetized neutron star and the...
- Blog posts 2008-06-01
- StdMap 4.5 (Mac)
- Area-preserving mappings model the dynamics of such systems as forced pendulums and the dynamics of stars in galacties and the flow of magnetic field lines. StdMap displays the orbits of 13 different such mappings which exhibit chaotic and regular dynamics. With the program you can find periodic orbits, stable manifolds...
- Software downloads 2008-05-15
- MagCAD 2.2.3 (Windows)
- MagCAD is a simple low-cost software tool for computation of spatial distribution of the magnetic field created by permanent magnets and electric coils at presence of nonlinear ferromagnetic materials in cylindrically symmetrical systems. The magnetic field is calculated by numerical solution of the equation for vector potential on a uniform...
- Software downloads 2007-04-27
- A roundtrip to Mars in one day?
- According to ideas developed in the 1950s, it should be possible to build an 'hyperspace' engine allowing a spacecraft to reach Mars in 3 hours. It would also allow us to travel to stars more that 10 light years away in 80 days by slipping into a different dimension. But...
- Blog posts 2006-01-09
- Tech digs for new energy sources
- Tech digs for new energy sourcesOil is Running Out/ Wind Power/ HydrogenThis article focuses almost completely on solar.Wind power is dismissed as "a European phenomenon". Unlike solar power, wind power is a cheap proven technology. For example electricity generated using wind power is actually cheaper than electricity made using pollution...
- Discussion threads 2004-07-13
- SpaceWeather ScreenSaver 1.0 (Windows)
- The SpaceWeather ScreenSaver allows you to watch magnificent, near real-time images of our Sun. View images and information from up to 1,500,000 kilometers away from the SOHO, GOES, and other satellites. Displaying 15 different images of the Sun showing Coronal Mass Ejections (huge bubbles of gas threaded with magnetic field...
- Software downloads 2003-11-20
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- MedINRIA 1.9 (Windows)
- MedINRIA allows to process and analyze a large variety of magnetic resonance MR images including anatomical MRI, functional MRI fMRI, and diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI). MedINRIA was initially developed for medical experts, but may be used by anyone curious about medical images. Practically, MedINRIA is a suite of softwares, each...
- Software downloads 2009-11-06
- Stud Find for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)
- Stud Find for iPhone finds stud in the wall, or any sort of magnetic metal hidden from view. This app uses the magnetometer to find perturbations in the magnetic field caused by the metal nearby. For best results, point the right edge of the iPhone where the magnetometer is located,...
- Software downloads 2009-10-22
- DRAM error rates: nightmare on DIMM street
- Windows.Atleast From Vista has a Utility in Administrative tools in the control panel.Where in "About this Mac"?I'd just like to make sure I know the right place to look for errors. I look under "Hardware/Memory" and see a list of all 8 DIMM slots. There's a column for...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- DX ToolBox 3.6 (Mac)
- DX Toolbox searches the web for you, gathering information on solar and geomagnetic conditions that affect radio propagation. It also contains several propagation forecasting tools.It displays in real-time the following important readings:Solar Flux A-Index K-Index X-Ray Flux levels X-Ray flares Solar Wind Earth's Magnetic Field Radio Blackout conditions Geomagnetic Storm...
- Software downloads 2009-09-08
- Design & Development Low Cost RFID Antenna
- This paper describes how Low Cost HF (13.56 MHz) antennas can be built and tuned so that their characteristics match the requirements of the high performance reader and third party RF modules. This third edition places greater emphasis on antennas for the higher power readers. In general, the distance at...
- White papers 2009-09-07
- IBM backs research behind Lithium-ion battery alternative
- IBM backs research behind Lithium-ion battery alternativeI want to know where my wireless power is. Tesla was on to something andwe need to persue it. Screw batteries... just turn it on... no power needed.Boy that woudl put battery companies in the low demand, make green folks happy and...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-24
- I haven't had a good rant recently
- I haven't had a good rant recentlyheh . . ."This is why we ZDNet bloggers tend to stick to our area of expertise so we don?t say anything stupid about, say, rain forest frogs, if we don?t know anything about frogs of the rain forest."Well, an occasional ZDNet blogger has...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- Take An Order! 2.9.11 (Mobile)
- Are you selling products at trade shows or expos? Taking orders from customers in their home or office? Submitting bids or issuing quotations in a field situation? Delivering product and need to issue a receipt? For all these situations and more, Take An Order! is the handheld tool you need....
- Software downloads 2009-04-05
- Fusion, or confusion?
- Fusion, or confusion?Fusion could be feasibleThere are a few very steep problems to over come in terrestrial fusion. The biggest I have heard of was creating a field capable of forming a dense sphere of hydrogen. In space gravity over a long period of time causes a mass of hydrogen...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-16
- Contrary to past indicators, the whole Antarctic is warming
- Contrary to past indicators, the whole Antarctic is warmingMisleading Article againUnfortunately, if you look at their actual graph in the Nature article, Antarctica also shows the plateau and cooling that the world has been showing to the satellites for the last decade.Ref: http://climatesci.org/2009/01/21/follow-up-on-todays-ap-article-by-seth-bornenstein-entitled-study-antarctica-joins-rest-of-globe-in-warming/It's just localYou can't make a conclusion on...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-22
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