Unlocking the Unimaginable: Revolutionary New Method for Materials Discovery
Researchers have discovered a method for creating new materials for use in batteries, magnets, and microelectronics. The most skilled artists can create a one-of-a-kind…
Magnets News
“100 Times Better” – Tiny Magnetic Vortices Could Transform High-Performance Computers
Small magnetic whirlpools could revolutionize high-performance computer memory storage. Magnets create invisible fields that attract certain materials. A familiar example is refrigerator magnets. However, they…
Physicists Successfully Create a New Type of Quasiparticle
City College of New York physicists have created a new magnetic quasiparticle. The City College of New York’s Center for Discovery and Innovation and the…
Scientists “See” Spinning Quasiparticles in a 2D Magnet
New research reveals that spinning quasiparticles, or magnons, light up when paired with a light-emitting quasiparticle, or exciton, with potential quantum information applications. All magnets…
1,400,000 Times Stronger Than Earth’s: New Record for Strongest Steady Magnetic Field
China has set a new world record for the strongest steady magnetic field. On August 12, the hybrid magnet of the Steady High Magnetic Field Facility…
Physicists Stunned by Nature in the Wrong Direction: Magnetic Spins That “Freeze” When Heated
Physicists observed a very strange new type of behavior in a magnetic material when it’s heated up. When the temperature rises, the magnetic spins ‘freeze’…
On the Edge: New Magnetic Phenomenon Discovered With Industrial Potential
Working with the tiniest magnets, Hebrew University discovers a new magnetic phenomenon with industrial potential. For physicists, exploring the realm of the very, very small…
Artificial Intelligence Computing Using Networks of Tiny Nanomagnets
Researchers have shown it is possible to perform artificial intelligence using tiny nanomagnets that interact like neurons in the brain. The new technology, developed by…
New “Electromagnets” Could Facilitate Development of Fusion and Medical Technologies
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have designed a new type of magnet that could aid devices ranging…
Scientists Use Micromagnets to Remote Control Brain Cells
Scientists at UCL have developed a new technique that uses microscopic magnetic particles to remotely activate brain cells; researchers say the discovery in rats could…
Surprising New Material Invented That Can Absorb and Release Massive Amounts of Energy
A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they had engineered…
Hard Single-Molecule Magnets for Data Storage: Tetranuclear Rare Earth Metal Complexes With Giant Spin
Magnets formed from a single molecule are of particular interest in data storage, since the ability to store a bit on every molecule could vastly…
MIT Superconducting Magnet Breaks Records – Major Advance Toward Fusion Energy
New superconducting magnet breaks magnetic field strength records, paving the way for practical, commercial, carbon-free power. It was a moment three years in the making,…
Scientists Create Advanced, More Powerful Superconducting Magnet for Next Generation Light Sources
Magnet Designers Look to the Future of Light Sources With New Prototype After more than 15 years of work, scientists at three DOE national laboratories…
New World Record: Fermilab Achieves 14.5-Tesla Field for Accelerator Magnet
The Fermilab magnet team has done it again. After setting a world record for an accelerator magnet in 2019, they have broken it a year…
Super Magnets Produced Successfully With Laser-Based 3D Printer
Research team develops a method for producing specially designed magnets. Magnetic materials are an important component of mechatronic devices such as wind power stations, electric…
Magnetic Building Blocks for Robotics – Can Be Assembled Into Shapes and Controlled by Magnetic Fields
ETH scientists have developed cube-shaped magnetic building blocks that can be assembled into two-dimensional shapes and controlled by an external magnetic field. They can be…
New Technique Allows Researchers to Use Low-Intensity Magnets to Control Block Copolymers
Engineers at the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Yale have discovered a technique for modifying self-assembled polymers that allows their structure to be…
