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Liew Thow Lin, a 70-year-old retired contractor in Malaysia, recently made news for pulling a car twenty meters along a level surface by means of an iron chain hooked to an iron plate on his midriff. He says that he discovered he had the amazing ability...
A time and attendance system that can work with over 20 different types of attendance readers like biometric (fingerprint), magnetic card, proximity RFID card or barcode based card system. The data from the readers can be transferred using TCP/Ip, modem,...
Tags: time, attendance, rfid, biometric, fingerprint, magnetic, barcode, modem, tcp.ip, serial, usb, overtime, ot, over time, time card, absence, leave, tardy, late comer, job costing, task, project
Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist. Solar wind can flow in through the opening to "load up" the magnetosphere for powerful geomagnetic storms...David Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "This finding...
Tags: magnetic, scientists, magnetosphere, solar wind, solar, sun, Earth, magnetic field, solar winds
However, latest research shows how advances in fusion research may reduce the threat to acceptable levels, making man's first Mars mission a much greater possibility. Solar energetic particles, although part of 'cosmic rays' spectrum, are causing the...
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Scientists have made progress in the testing and development of a magnetic shield to protect us from harmful radiation in space. Space travel and colonization may just have got a whole lot safer. The urgent need for such a mechanism is due to the stream...
Tags: solar flare, magnetic, shield, spacecraft
Scientists have discovered that microscopic magnetic properties of iron are responsible for the fact that it softens and loses strength at 500C, only about a third of its melting point. Dr Sergei Dudarev, who led the research, said that if better steels...
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If you are lost on a farm, try using the cows to find your way home...The German and Czech researchers who discovered the phenomenon by poring over Google Earth satellite images of pastures around the world also found the same phenomenon among herds of...
In one of the less conventional uses of Google Earth, zoologists have studied enough herds of cows to deduce that they tend to align themselves in a north-south fashion like compass needles. Unfortunately, Google Earth does not allow high enough...
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Morry Gash / Associated Press The findings are "very interesting and not at all implausible," said Caltech geobiologist Joseph Kirschvink, who was not involved in the research...Satellite images show that cattle tend to point north and south when grazing...
Tags: magnetic, cows, Google Earth, point north, magnetism sense, Germany