At the same time, that gas must be prevented from touching the walls of the reactor by confining it in a powerful magnetic field known as a magnetic bottle.
This would be like a pulsar, but with a magnetic field a quadrillion times stronger than the sun's, and about a thousand times stronger than the already massive fields that are inferred for ordinary pulsars.
Creating a magnetic field using electricity is easy: an electric current flowing in a wire generates a magnetic field around that wire.
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GoalRef, meanwhile, uses a magnetic field and a special ball to determine whether a ball has completely crossed the line or not.
The space has charcoal-and-white wallpaper, a magnetic wall, a custom sectional and a long desk with computers for Jake and his 8-year-old sister.
When something that conducts electricity sweeps through a magnetic field, a current starts to flow through it (this is the basis of a dynamo).
This conical beam is then reflected into a cluster of 1m or so rubidium atoms, which are held trapped in a magnetic field within a vacuum chamber.
The idea of using a magnetic field as a solar sail was first suggested a few years ago, but it soon became apparent that creating a field strong enough to be useful would require exotic superconducting materials that, unfortunately, do not exist.
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In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprises: a material attachable to skin, the material capable of detecting a magnetic field and transferring a perceivable stimulus to the skin, wherein the perceivable stimulus relates to the magnetic field.
Shain had a magnetic personality, with a passion for life that touched everyone he met and we will miss him dearly.
One of these is that if it is placed in a magnetic field it exhibits a phenomenon known as the relativistic quantum Hall effect.
Most of us consider moral judgment a higher order thought process, but this research shows that it can be tweaked by a weak magnetic field in a matter of minutes.
These are superpositions of ones and zeros and are represented by, for example, the direction of spin (with respect to a magnetic field) of a particle such as an electron.
Steven Sasson invented the digital camera itself, starting at Kodak in the 1970s with an eight-and-a-half-pound box connected to a magnetic tape drive and a TV set, which produced a .01 megapixel image.
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When ions spiral around in a magnetic field, they create a second field pointed in the opposite direction to the first.
His measurements suggest that muons also differ from electrons in a property called magnetic moment, which governs a particle's interaction with magnetic fields.
One new technique being used by some neuroeconomists is transcranial magnetic stimulation, in which a coil held next to the head issues a low-level magnetic pulse that temporarily disrupts activity in a certain part of the brain, to see if that changes the subject's preferences for example, for a particular food and how much he is willing to pay for it.
Each of those dots, in theory, could hold a distinct magnetic state, representing a one or a zero.
They moved often, living near Byron Bay, a beachfront community in New South Wales, and on Magnetic Island, a tiny pile of rock that Captain Cook believed had magnetic properties that distorted his compass readings.
His core discovery, of how to get spatial information about atoms in a magnetic field, was scribbled on a paper napkin over dinner in a Big Boy restaurant in Pittsburgh, between two bites of a hamburger.
"Ensuring that your checkout process and, more important, the credit card form are well-secured will guarantee your customers feel safe when transmitting their information, " says Pat Kaeowichien, director of information technology for Magnetic, a Tampa-based Web-development firm.
By holding a magnetic coil over somebody's skull, a researcher can affect the activity of the piece of cortex beneath, while causing no pain to the subject.
In a pair of papers to be published soon in Analytical Chemistry, Dr Porter describes how he and his graduate students ran a slender glass stick larded with magnetic nanoparticles through a GMR reader.
Last year ALPHA used a magnetic trap to hold on to antihydrogen atoms for a record 16 minutes.
Getting back on topic, pulling off a magnetic cover on the front of the base reveals a slot that can charge one battery at a time.
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"Because it's contact-less there's a perception people can grab it from thin air, but it's actually a more sophisticated technology than credit cards with a magnetic stripe, making it more difficult to steal a consumer's payment information, " said Nick Holland, a mobile-transactions analyst at Yankee Group.
After a decade of ho-hum results, magnetic memory got a boost with the discovery of giant magnetoresistive materials.
You're just a piece of aluminium coated in some sort of magnetic substance in a server farm located in a country where the climate makes it economically viable to keep the machines at constant temperature.
That technique uses a magnetic field to hold large volumes of the same isotopes of hydrogen inside a doughnut-shaped vessel, called a tokamak.
Data is stored in the magnetic state of the electrodes, similar to the way data is stored in a magnetic hard drive.
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