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Magnetism

16 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 18, 2026.

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Maryland Physicists Stacked a Two-Dimensional Magnet on a Two-Dimensional Ferroelectric and Got a Room-Temperature Multiferroic That Switches Its Magnetism With a Small Voltage, 3,000 Times Without Wearing Out

Neither long-range magnetic order nor ferroelectric order survives easily in a sheet a few atoms thick, and getting both to coexist at 19°C was thought to be extraordinarily hard. Cheng Gong's team did it by building each order in its own layer and pressing the layers together.

Sep 18 4 min read
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Cornell Physicists Stopped Part of a Light Wave and Left a Magnet Behind for 300 Femtoseconds

No external magnets, no magnetic materials — just a germanium metasurface and a well-timed laser pulse that changes the rules while the light is still inside.

Sep 2 3 min read
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The Sun's Surface Is Covered in 12-Mile Whirlpools That No Telescope Could Resolve Until Now

The Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii imaged plasma vortices just 20 kilometers across, curling at the edges of granules like breaking ocean waves. They may be how the Sun twists its magnetic field.

Aug 5 3 min read
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Physicists Extend the Life of Magnetic 'Magnons' 100-Fold, Opening a Path to Penny-Sized Quantum Computers

A Vienna-led team kept the tiny magnetic waves alive for 18 microseconds, showing their fragility was never a law of nature — just a matter of material purity.

Jul 5 3 min read
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A Tiny Diamond Defect Could Unmask a Mysterious Third Kind of Magnet

Physicists propose using a flaw in diamond as an exquisitely sensitive quantum sensor to detect altermagnets, a newly discovered class of materials that could reshape electronics.

Jun 26 3 min read
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A Shaken Vial of Oil, Water and Nickel Keeps Reforming Into a Greek Urn

UMass Amherst physicists found that strongly magnetized particles can defy entropy, reshaping a liquid mixture into the same elegant curve every time it is disturbed.

Jun 8 3 min read
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Scientists Discover Atoms Suddenly Spinning Backward in Quantum Experiment

Using terahertz lasers, researchers watched angular momentum move through crystals and found rotations can unexpectedly flip direction due to quantum symmetry effects.

May 29 2 min read
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Scientists Watch Atoms Suddenly Reverse Spin Direction in Quantum Crystal

Ultra-powerful terahertz lasers reveal how angular momentum transfers through crystals, with surprising reversals caused by quantum symmetry effects.

May 28 2 min read
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Quantum Breakthrough: Scientists Watch Atoms Spin Backward as Angular Momentum Flows Through Crystal

Researchers using terahertz laser pulses discover bizarre effect where atomic rotations unexpectedly reverse direction due to crystal symmetry.

May 25 3 min read
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Quantum Breakthrough: Scientists Watch Angular Momentum Flow Through Crystal, Discover Bizarre Reversal Effect

Ultra-powerful terahertz lasers reveal how atomic rotations can unexpectedly flip direction as momentum transfers through quantum materials, offering new insights into magnetism's fundamental origins.

May 25 3 min read
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Physicists Observe Strange Quantum Effect in Crystal Atoms

Scientists directly watch angular momentum move through crystal for first time, discovering unexpected reversal effect.

May 24 3 min read
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Physicists Watch Atoms Spin Backward in Breakthrough Quantum Experiment

Scientists directly observe angular momentum moving through crystals for the first time, discovering bizarre reversal effect caused by quantum symmetry.

May 24 3 min read
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Tokyo Physicists Build an Explainable-AI Model That Finally Pinpoints Where Electric Motors Waste 30% of Their Energy

Masato Kotsugi's eX-GL framework uses persistent homology and physics-constrained machine learning to map four hidden energy barriers inside soft magnetic motor cores.

May 18 3 min read
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Mysterious Quantum Material Reveals New Physics Through Magnetic Deception

Cerium magnesium hexalluminate fooled scientists with quantum spin liquid signatures, but uncovered exotic magnetic behavior instead.

Apr 25 3 min read
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Mysterious Magnetic Material Reveals New Physics After 200 Years of Confusion

Scientists discover cerium magnesium hexalluminate isn't a quantum spin liquid as thought, but something potentially more intriguing involving competing magnetic forces.

Apr 22 3 min read
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Magnets That Think Like Graphene: Illinois Engineers' Breakthrough Could Shrink Wireless Chips to the Width of a Hair

Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered that specially designed magnetic films follow the same mathematical rules as graphene's electrons — with transformative implications for wireless communications technology.

Mar 23 4 min read