Indiana Inventor Develops Heat Transfer Support Surface

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 6, 2007 ;     236 words ......Wayne, Ind., has developed a support surface for heating or cooling food...Trademark Office: "A heat transfer support surface for heating or cooling food articles placed adjacent the support surface by circulating a heat transfer...

Is Earth's faltering magnetic field turning south?

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  December 12, 2003 ;     631 words ......spinning, with dire effects on the magnetic field that protects the planet from energy-charg...Scientists have known for some time that the magnetic field is in fact collapsing -- at a rate...geophysicists increasingly wonder whether the magnetic field has begun one of its occasional ...

Colorado Inventor Develops Ergonomic Support Surface

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 1, 2007 ;     240 words ......has developed an ergonomic support surface. According to the U.S. Patent...Trademark Office: "An ergonomic support surface is disclosed that supports...contact with the ergonomic support surface to control a hand activated...

German Inventor Develops Support Surface Position Changing Mechanism

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 21, 2006 ;     219 words ......mechanism for changing a position of a support surface. According to the U.S. Patent &...mechanism for changing a position of a support surface for seats and couches and a length...carrying a deformable region of the support surface and surrounding respective telescopic...

Indiana, Ohio, Connecticut Inventors Develop Dynamic Cellular Person...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 19, 2008 ;     232 words ......Ridgefield, Conn., have developed a support surface for chair. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A person support surface comprises a multitude of inflatable...interface pressure between the person support surface and a person supported by the surface...

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR DETECTS MARTIAN MAGNETIC FIELD AS AEROBRAKING BEGINS

Regulatory Intelligence Data;  September 17, 1997 ;     700+ words ......MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR DETECTS MARTIAN MAGNETIC FIELD AS AEROBRAKING BEGINS Scientists have confirmed the existence of a planet-wide magnetic field at Mars using an instrument on-board...began making measurements of Mars' magnetic field after its capture into orbit on Sept...

Earth's magnetic field has started to weaken

The Hindustan Times;  July 1, 2008 ;     408 words ......liquid outer core are weakening the magnetic field in some regions of the planet's surface...changes take place in the Earth's magnetic field," said study co-author Nils Olsen...current, which generates the planet's magnetic field. The study modeled Earth's magnetic...

Differentiation of myoblasts is accelerated in culture in a magnetic field

In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology;  June 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......myoblasts and the cells were cultured in a magnetic field. The differentiation of myoblasts was...myogenin production. After exposure to the magnetic field, the cells containing MPs became larger...the other groups (cells alone without magnetic field, cells containing MPs but without ...

Power line magnetic field interference

Electromagnetic News Report;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......magnetic fields is the computer CRT. The magnetic field interferes with the deflection field...deflection varies at a rapid rate. The 60Hz magnetic field beats with the refresh rate, typically...CRT will start to exhibit jitter in a magnetic field of 10 to 15 milligauss (mg). The ...

Earth's heart beats with a magnetic rhythm. (rhythm of strength of...

Science News;  November 20, 1993 ;     605 words ......several hundred thousand years, the magnetic field emanating from inside the planet does...early part of this century that Earth's magnetic field flips its polarity. The last reversal...recorded the direction and strength of the magnetic field at the time the sediment layers ...

ODP Cores Provide Insight on Magnetic Field Reversal

Sea Technology;  May 1, 2004 ;     289 words ...The time is takes for the Earth's magnetic field to reverse polarity is approximately...scientists' understanding of how Earth's magnetic field works. According to scientists, the magnetic field has exhibited a frequent but dramatic...

Solar magnetism: Memories are made of this.(research on solar magnetic...

Science News;  February 12, 2000 ;     524 words ......describes the behavior of the solar magnetic field revealed by a new study. Waxing and waning, even flipping direction, the sun's magnetic field undergoes dramatic upheavals yet always...original shape and position. The sun's magnetic field has a memory and [has returned] to...

Swiss Inventors Develop Magnetic Field Direction Detection Sensor

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 29, 2007 ;     324 words ......sensor for detecting the direction of a magnetic field in a plane. According to the U.S. Patent...sensor for detecting the direction of a magnetic field in a plane whose direction can be defined...Said sensor comprises a number of n magnetic field sensors. A measurement axis is ...

Tracing corrosion's magnetic field.

Science News;  August 30, 1986 ;     647 words ...Tracing Corrosion's Magnetic Field The ravages of corrosion are...metal surfaces (see diagram). The magnetic field measurements were done with a...other out and generate no net magnetic field. With the magnetometer about...

Magnetic field faces change in direction

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 29, 2003 ;     582 words ...Magnetic field faces change in direction By GLENNDA...could happen if the Earth's protective magnetic field continues to weaken and then flips...thousands of years if it does happen. The magnetic field has grown weaker before, only to perk...