Word: electromagneticism
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(2 of 2) Pathfinder's rover was a toy-size machine. Barely 30 cm high and 60 cm long and weighing just under 11 kg, it operated for three months and in all that time toddled across a stretch of Martian terrain little bigger than a football field. The new...
Jack Nicklaus carries three tees and three pennies in his pocket when he plays. Fred Couples only uses balls with ones and threes on them. Golfers may be the most superstitious of all pro athletes, but no good-luck charm has swept the tour like a little ornament called the...
HPMs are man-made lightning bolts crammed into cruise missiles. They could be key weapons for targeting Saddam Hussein's stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons. HPMs fry the sophisticated computers and electronic gear necessary to produce, protect, store and deliver such agents. The powerful electromagnetic pulses can travel into...
The other half goes to Kurt W?thrich of, 64, of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. Like Tanaka and Fenn, W?thrich took an existing high-tech tool and refined it for use on organic molecules. In this case, the technology was...
This act of digital sabotage offered an intriguing glimpse of things to come. China is increasingly embracing such high-tech tactics as a way of destabilizing potential enemies, including the U.S. In the past three years, the People's Liberation Army has moved quickly to implement a new military strategy...