image: An international team of scientists has managed for the first time to observe the 'nutation' of spins in magnetic materials (the oscillations of their axis during precession). The measured ...
La nutation est un phénomène astronomique lié à la rotation d'un astre, en particulier la Terre, et plus précisément à l'oscillation périodique de l'axe de rotation de ce corps céleste. Ce terme ...
The Earth is not the steady round rock we think it is, and it’s not turning the graceful circles we imagine. Every little-bit-more-than-a-year, we make a sort of wobble in space called a nutation. Why ...