Much of the ‘memory’ of the world and all our digital activities are based on media, hard disks, where the information is encoded thanks to…
Researchers pushing the limits of magnets as a means to create faster electronics published their proof of concept findings on April 10, 2020, in the…
There’s an interesting fluid dynamics phenomenon that happens every morning in millions of cereal bowls. When there are just a few bits of cereal left…
Materials scientists who work with nano-sized components have developed ways of working with their vanishingly small materials. But what if you could get your components…
Making connections: Bringing astrophysical processes down to Earth Magnetic reconnection, a process in which magnetic field lines tear and come back together, releasing large amounts…
Researchers from Boston College, MIT, and UC Santa Barbara reveal an elusive atomic-scale magnetic ‘signal’ in a Mott insulator. Chestnut Hill, Mass. — Probing the…
New research details how a MIT-based team has made important strides in the concept of using an electrical signal to control a magnetic memory. A…
Researchers detail new secrets about how superconductivity and magnetism can be related, revealing more about the quantum world of electrons. Superconducting materials exhibit unexpected behaviors…
In a newly published study, EPFL scientists have for the first time predicted and experimentally verified the existence of the Magnetic Seebeck Effect. EPFL scientists…
A newly published study provides a detailed analysis of how herbertsmithite’s electrons respond to light, revealing a signature in the optical conductivity of the spin-liquid…
Scientists from the University of Manchester have shown for the first time that magnetic clouds in graphene can be controllably dissipated and then condensed back,…
A newly published study suggests that the interaction between a surface and a charge packet moving parallel to it can become repulsive above a critical…
Scientists discovered a magnetic field that can control the flow of heat from one body to another. It was first predicted 50 years ago, and…
A newly published study details how scientists used femtosecond X-ray pulses from a free-electron laser to capture nanoscale, light-induced changes in a material made of…
By using water-repellent ferrous nanoparticles that mix with oil and can be separated from water by using magnets, MIT researchers have developed a new technique…
In a newly published study, an international team of scientists described how they used quantum mechanics to switch on and off the magnetism in a…
To further understand magnetism and superconductivity, scientists examined the “spin states” and responses of two-dimensional lattices to extreme pressures, finding strong magnetic and lattice-structure coupling….
While using X-ray pulses, a team of scientists was able to observe how magnetism in nickel and iron atoms works, which could lead to faster…