Researchers found friction can occur without contact, driven by magnetic dynamics, and does not always increase with load. The effect could enable controllable, wear-free technologies.

Researchers at Bayreuth have discovered techniques to use magnetic patterns to control minute particles in liquids. Now, the study’s findings are available in Nature Communications under the heading ...

Ultrafast magnetic switching and optical control represent a transformative paradigm in the manipulation of magnetic states using light. This field leverages ultrashort laser pulses—often in the ...

A powerful new method to control magnetic behaviour in ultra-thin materials could lead to faster, smaller and more energy-efficient technologies, a study suggests. Researchers have developed a new way ...

Researchers have developed an innovative method to study ultrafast magnetism in materials. They have shown the generation and application of magnetic field steps, in which a magnetic field is turned ...

Scientists from MIT have been blasting magnets with lasers, which is more scientific than it sounds. Researchers working with antiferromagnetic material have devised a way to control the magnetic ...

Controlling magnetism in a device is not easy; unusually large magnetic fields or lots of electricity are needed, which are bulky, slow, expensive and/or waste energy. But that looks soon to change, ...

If you ever wished electrons would just behave, this one’s for you. A team from Tohoku, Osaka, and Manchester Universities has cracked open an interesting phenomenon in the chiral helimagnet α-EuP 3: ...