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Diamonds help hunt a new type of magnet that could revolutionize electronics

31 May 2026 at 12:21

For almost 100 years, scientists believed there were only two main types of magnets. One is the familiar ferromagnet, the kind found on refrigerators and in many electronic devices. The other is the antiferromagnet, a less obvious type whose magnetic properties cancel out and remain hidden at larger scales. In recent years, researchers have identified […]

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The Sophisticated Threads behind a Hat That Senses Traffic Lights

21 February 2024 at 13:30

A new technique to make electronic fibers could help solve wearable technology’s flexibility problem

© Zhixun Wang

Hundreds of metres long high-performance flexible semiconductor fibres collected on a cylindrical bobbin, together with some preforms after the manufacturing process.
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