magnetism

Swim In The Pain Of Retrieving A Lost Drive Bit From Deep Inside A Mini

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Swim In The Pain Of Retrieving A Lost Drive Bit From Deep Inside A Mini

Screenshot: Harbor Freight Tools You probably know this feeling. You drop something, a fastener, a socket, a shotgun shell into your engine bay. First you look. Can you see it? No. Then you stick one of those little magnet retriever things down where you think the object may have gone. It sticks to everything else, … Read more

Scientists Just Discovered a New Type of Magnetism

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Scientists Just Discovered a New Type of Magnetism

“The very reason that we have magnetism in our everyday lives is because of the strength of electron exchange interactions,” said study coauthor Ataç İmamoğlu, a physicist also at the Institute for Quantum Electronics. However, as Nagaoka theorized in the 1960s, exchange interactions may not be the only way to make a material magnetic. Nagaoka … Read more