Electrons are subatomic spinning tops: Spin up and spin down are the electron's version of clockwise and counterclockwise.
All particles rotate and have spin except for the Higgs, which is theorized to have a spin of zero.
In some ways, Thermo has had it easy, increasing sales by entering niche after niche with spin-out after spin-out.
Within the limits of accuracy of the experiment, positron spin-flipping seems to happen at the same frequency as electron spin-flipping.
It measures type of spin (topspin or slice) but not how much spin in revolutions per second, which is far more meaningful.
"This is very exciting because if the spin-zero determination is confirmed, it would be the first elementary particle to have zero spin, " he said.
And from the team that brought you CSI and NCIS spin-offs comes yet another: a Criminal Minds mid-season spin-off starring Oscar winner Forest Whitaker.
Speaking of spin, this part of the paper reminds me quite a lot of the science fiction novel, Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson.
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The film, starring Bafta nominee Peter Capaldi as the venomous political spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker, is a spin-off from the BBC TV series The Thick of It.
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Grandis makes a non-NAND flash solid state storage technology called spin-transfer torque RAM (STT-RAM) that stores information via the direction of magnetization in a spin-polarized electron current.
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Cook soon decided that spin from both ends was the best policy and the indispensable Swann got one to drift in and then spin away to trap Siddique.
It produced four spin-offs and two spin-offs of the spin-offs.
In either case, each spin valve reacts to only one sort of molecule, so the chips can search simultaneously for as many types of molecules as they have spin valves.
For the Sidewinder to move laterally to the left with the nose facing front, the two left wheels spin toward each other, and the two right wheels spin away from each other.
The researchers used the star's X-ray light curves to determine its spin, which makes V1647 one of the youngest stars whose spin has been determined using an X-ray based technique, they said.
The model, or "spin", can be cropped and adjusted (brightness, saturation and contrast) like a regular photograph, plus users can create custom annotations to identify or comment on specific parts of the "spin" as well.
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If you're a frequent reader you're surely well aware of the potential of spin torque transfer memory, or STT-MRAM, and how spin-polarized magnetic currents (and the electrons they love to caress) might hold the potential to revolutionize storage as we know it.
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So why does Guccione, the founder of SPIN and Gear, plan to reenter publishing this year?
This week Oracle expanded its effort by buying Navio, a spin-off from Netscape Communications.
And Buffy spin-off character Angel, the vampire with a soul, was rated ninth in the league.
Check with tourist boards or the Internet Cycling Hub website ( www.cycling.org) to arrange a spin.
The show that spawned the most spin-offs was US sitcom All in the Family.
The reasons behind the drop were unfavorable foreign exchange and the 20% spin-off of Zoetis.
Cablevision plans to spin off its Rainbow Media subsidiary, as publicly-traded AMC Networks, later this year.
It was a revolving door of managers with the clients caught in the spin.
Fortunately, some in Congress today are ready to give the cause for royalty equity another spin.
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He hopes it will help the spin bowler regain his fitness following a long injury lay-off.
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