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“There’s some strange magnetic force that’s in us — you can talk about God or whatever you want to call it — but I think it’s a metaphysical process that’s in us.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025
And yet as the story of the Lauder collection shows, even then his magnetic force remained.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Until now, there has been a technical obstacle: the force of gravity of these microrobots exceeds that of the magnetic force, which limits their guidance when the tumour is located higher than the injection site.
From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2024
Sunspots are darker, cooler areas on the sun’s surface where magnetic force is significantly higher than elsewhere on the sun.
From National Geographic • Dec. 1, 2023
The magnetic force, in turn, would cause a little pointer to move, allowing a researcher to measure when a current first appeared, and when it dissipated.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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