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Inductors Explained: Magnetic Energy in Electrical Circuits

This video explains the function of inductors and how they store energy in a magnetic field when current flows through them. Inductors are essential passive components used to manage current changes ...

Earth Has Had a Weird Glitch for 8 Million Years—and It’s Getting Weirder

The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is a particularly weak region of Earth’s magnetic field that can cause satellites to ...

Something Weird Is Happening to Earth’s Magnetic Field

Earth’s magnetic field is essential to life on our planet. It protects Earth from cosmic radiation and acts as a shield ...
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Magnets Explained: Magnetic Fields and Material Alignment

This video explains what magnets are and how magnetic fields are generated through the alignment of atomic structures.

The Earth Has a Growing Weak Spot in Its Magnetic Field: Here's What That Means

Per the ESA, this phenomenon can be best explained by strange behaviors far within the Earth at the boundary where the ...
The Rocky Mountain Collegian

6 patents granted to CSU innovators over the past year

Boasting over 1,700 full-time faculty members across eight colleges and an alumni network of 250,000 alumni worldwide, ...

Swarm reveals growing weak spot in Earth's magnetic field

Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency's Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have ...