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In a remarkable leap for quantum physics, researchers in Japan have uncovered how weak magnetic fields can reverse tiny ...

Researchers in Japan have succeeded in switching a manganese-tin nanodot using electric current pulses as short as 0.1 ns ...

Toyota teams up with Sumitomo Metal Mining to mass produce cathode materials for next-generation all-solid-state EV batteries.

Quantum metals are metals where quantum effects—behaviors that normally only matter at atomic scales—become powerful enough ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Optical lattice clocks are emerging timekeeping devices based on tens of thousands of ultracold atoms trapped in an optical ...

Superconductivity is a phenomenon where certain materials can conduct electricity with zero resistance. Obviously, this has enormous technological advantages, which makes superconductivity one of the ...

Japanese researchers have revealed how weak magnetic fields can instantly control the direction of electrical flow in quantum metals. Quantum metals are materials in which quantum effects, usually ...

Quantum metals are metals where quantum effects—behaviors that normally only matter at atomic scales—become powerful enough to control the metal's ...

Understanding singularities is key to resolving gaps in physics, with theories like string theory and causal set theory ...

Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time ...