Magnetometer
A magnetometer measures the strength and direction of a magnetic field. The first magnetometers were mechanical devices that had a spring-loaded magnet which moved in relation to an exter...
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Hamburg (dpa) - German scientists have found iron minerals
contained in some birds' beaks which might serve as a magnetometer,
allowing the birds to use precise navigation. ...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have developed
a magnetic sensor smaller than a grain of rice and sensitive
enough to detect a fetal heart beat, offering the potential for
a host of new medic...
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Paris (dpa) - Despite radical differences, the climate of the
planet Venus has a number of similarities to that of Earth, according
to findings by the Venus Express probe th...
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A NASA spacecraft will fly by the planet Mercury on Monday, the first visit to the sun's closest neighbor since the 1970s.The space probe Messenger will skim 124 miles above the planet's surface, t...
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Captured by Confederate sailors in a bloody midnight sneak attack in 1864, the gunboat Water Witch became one of the few Civil War ships to sail under the flags of both the Confederate and Union na...
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Some examples of CIA misconduct described in 693 pages of documents released by agency Tuesday:One plot against Fidel Castro:CIA Office of Security Director Howard Osborn described a plot begun in ...
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Hand sanitizer makes it through security in one airport, then it's confiscated at another. Screening lines back up because only two of six lanes are open. And then there's the occasional all-too-in...
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Hand sanitizer makes it through security in one airport, then it's confiscated at another. Screening lines back up because only two of six lanes are open. And then there's the occasional all-too-in...
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Magnetometer
Homing pigeons just follow their noses, er, beaks
