Many animals seem to have a mysterious sixth sense that allows them to travel through the world in ways that humans can only ...

There's a magnet in a secure room in central Tokyo. It's an electromagnet, the kind that generates a magnetic field when electrical current flows through it. The last time the scientists who operate ...

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

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