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How to make screws stick to a screwdriver

Small screws disappear on the floor faster than you can blink–and the annoying search begins. However, there’s a simple trick that makes life easier for many DIY enthusiasts: A magnetic screwdriver ...
Magnetism on the moon has always been a bit confusing. Remote sensing probes have noted there is some magnetic signature, but far from the strong cocoon that surrounds Earth itself. Previous attempts ...
A single, ultrafast laser pulse has flipped the polarity of a ferromagnet without first heating it to the brink of losing its ...
A new framework for understanding the non-monotonic temperature dependence and sign reversal of the chirality-related ...
The Einstein–de Haas effect, which links the spin of electrons to macroscopic rotation, has now been demonstrated in a ...
Researchers have developed a technique that allows them to carve complex three dimensional nanodevices directly from single ...
The key to future technologies can sometimes be found in the past. What Ravi Kishore is working to perfect, for example, has ...
Scientists have shown that twisting a crystal at the nanoscale can turn it into a tiny, reversible diode, hinting at a new era of shape-engineered electronics.
By shining a focused laser beam onto a sample of material, a team at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and ETH Zürich showed ...