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24 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: November 2, 2026.
SLAC-led physicists found a handedness signature in manganese telluride that conventional antiferromagnets lack, a result that could help build faster, lower-power electronics.
The ACS Nano prediction for MnBi₂Te₄ points to ultrafast switching without the heat of electrical circuits, but no experiment has tested it yet.
Photoemission measurements of iron-doped niobium disulfide explain why the material's resistance switches with low current, a property prized for low-power spintronic memory.
The Nature Nanotechnology study finds the magnetic state persists after the voltage is removed, hinting at rewritable quantum materials.
The signature of a recently recognized form of magnetism in Co₁/₄TaSe₂ could point toward faster, more efficient spintronic electronics.
Chinese researchers found gamma-iron inside impact glass from the Moon's far side, a nanoscale 'magnetic fossil' that may record the Moon's lost magnetic field.
University of Chicago physicists found millions of electrons moving together slowly yet coherently in Fe5GeTe2, a result that contradicts theory and persists up to 100 kelvin.
The eight-pole magnetic order is invisible to standard probes, but it leaves a signature in how a crystal's atoms vibrate, which could lead to new kinds of computer memory.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Using terahertz lasers, researchers watched angular momentum move through crystals and found rotations can unexpectedly flip direction due to quantum symmetry effects.
Ultra-powerful terahertz lasers reveal how angular momentum transfers through crystals, with surprising reversals caused by quantum symmetry effects.
Researchers using terahertz laser pulses discover bizarre effect where atomic rotations unexpectedly reverse direction due to crystal symmetry.
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.
Scientists directly watch angular momentum move through crystal for first time, discovering unexpected reversal effect.
Scientists directly observe angular momentum moving through crystals for the first time, discovering bizarre reversal effect caused by quantum symmetry.
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.
Cerium magnesium hexalluminate fooled scientists with quantum spin liquid signatures, but uncovered exotic magnetic behavior instead.
Scientists discover cerium magnesium hexalluminate isn't a quantum spin liquid as thought, but something potentially more intriguing involving competing magnetic forces.
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.