Tiny levitated magnets are able to avoid contact friction, making them useful for detecting extremely weak forces and magnetic fields and acting as ultralow-noise quantum sensors and precision ...

For roughly 90 years, textbooks sorted magnets into two families: ferromagnets, whose aligned spins create a net field, and ...

RIKEN physicists have discovered for the first time why the magnitude of the electron flow depends on direction in a special kind of magnet. This finding could help to realize future low-energy ...

For nearly 90 years, scientists believed magnetism fell into just two categories, but researchers have now confirmed a ...

The Committee to Assess the Current Status and Future Direction of High Magnetic Field Science in the United States was convened by the National Research Council in response to a request by the ...

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A magnet barely wider than a human hair is one of the fastest spinning objects ever and could be useful for both fundamental ...

A small squeeze changed magnetic domains and electrical signals in two crystals, suggesting a way to control materials for ...

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The particle accelerators that enable high-energy physics and serve many fields of science, such as materials, medical, and fusion research, are driven by superconducting magnets that are, to put it ...

High-temperature superconductor magnets have the potential to lower the costs of operating particle accelerators and enable powerful new technologies like fusion reactors. But quenches -- the sudden, ...

It is not known when humans first noticed the attraction or repulsion between pieces of magnetic material. The first important device depending on these forces was the magnetic compass, which is ...