Science news articles about 'terrestrial magnetism'

  • Magnetic field on bright star Vega

    ... one knows that the charged particle motions inside stars can generate magnetic fields, and this is how solar and terrestrial magnetic fields are produced. However, for more massive stars than the Sun ...
  • Wandering poles left scars on Europa

    ... The research team, which included Isamu Matsuyama of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, used images from the Voyager, Galileo, and New Horizons spacecraft to map several ...
  • Diamonds reveal deep source of platinum deposits

    ... over hundreds of kilometers," says Steven Shirey of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. "The crust is very heterogeneous. That suggests a deeper source for the platinum." ...
  • Chemical clues point to dusty origin for Earth-like planets

    ... 20 issue of Science. Conel Alexander and Fred Ciesla of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, with colleagues Jeffrey Grossman of the U.S. Geological Survey and Denton Ebel ...
  • Pre-earthquake changes detected in the crust

    ... research," remarked study co-author Paul Silver of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. "We used a specially designed system to generate and record seismic waves before, ...
  • Moon water discovered: Dampens Moon-formation theory

    ... amounts of water. Co-author of the paper, Erik Hauri of the Carnegie's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, developed new techniques that can detect extremely minute quantities of water in glasses ...
  • Early earthquake warning: New tools show promise

    ... study co-author Paul Silver of the Carnegie Institution of Science’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. "Researchers have been trying to precisely and continuously measure these velocity changes ...
  • Oldest known rocks discovered

    ... , a PhD student at McGill, and Richard Carlson at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. By measuring minute variations in the isotopic composition of the rare earth elements ...
  • 'Little bang' triggered solar system formation

    ... the violent events remained constant. Now, astrophysicists at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) have shown for the first time that a supernova could indeed have ...
  • Exoplanet atmospheres detected from earth

    ... to no avail," remarked co-author Mercedes López-Morales at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. "We hit it right two nights last summer. The successful recipe is a planet ...
  • Spectacular heating of planet observed

    ... to amaze and confound me," says Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. Butler made the precision velocity measurements of the host star that allowed ...
  • Exploring planets in distant space and deep interiors

    ... perspectives on the new era of planetary exploration. Alan Boss of Carnegie's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and author of the new book The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets points ...
  • Fingerprinting slow earthquakes

    ... researchers, led by Teh-Ru Alex Song of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, has found that an anomalous layer at the top of a subducting plate coincides with the locations ...
  • Surprise: Typhoons trigger slow earthquakes

    ... and distortions of rock," explained coauthor Selwyn Sacks of Carnegie's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. "We also measured atmospheric pressure changes, because they usually produce proportional ...
  • New way to monitor faults may help predict earthquakes

    ... at the Earth's surface. Paul Silver* and Taka'aki Taira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, with Fenglin Niu of Rice University and Robert Nadeau of the University of ...

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