There's a magnet in a secure room in central Tokyo. It's an electromagnet, the kind that generates a magnetic field when ...

Beneath the bogs of New Zealand’s Northland is a massive Ngāwhā kauri, living from 41,000 to 42,500 years ago, which gives an isolated, unbroken record of a period when Earth’s magnetic field declined ...

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Devices taking advantage of the collective quantum behavior of spin excitations in magnetic materials—known as magnons—have ...

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