Physics

A team of Chinese researchers has managed to build the most powerful superconducting magnet ever created. This means…

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This groundbreaking discovery could reshape the future of electronics, including supercomputers and sensors. By revealing this “quantum metric,”…

I’ve yet to meet a physicist that didn’t believe in the beauty of the general theory of relativity—Einstein’s…

For decades, scientists have suspected the presence of a magnetic field that holds the Milky Way together, but…

Twenty-three nominations, yet no Nobel prize: how Chien-Shiung Wu missed out on the top award in physics –…

Physicists have put thousands of atoms into a “Schrödinger’s cat” state — smashing the record for the most…

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Dietl, T. & Ohno, H. Dilute ferromagnetic semiconductors: physics and spintronic structures. Rev. Mod. Phys. 86, 187–251 (2014).…

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It’s official—the Chinese Academy of Sciences presents the world’s most powerful magnet and ushers in a new scientific era—it is 700,000 times more powerful than the Earth’s magnetic field