Dice are about the simplest machines possible, and they’ve been used since before recorded history to generate random numbers. But no machine is so simple that a little needless complexity can’t make ...

Magnetic levitation demonstrated using a Dremel tool spinning a magnet at 266 Hz. The rotor magnet is 7x7x7 mm3 and the floater magnet is 6x6x6 mm3. This video show the physics described in the work ...

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A team of researchers has managed to generate and detect spin currents in graphene without using any external magnetic fields for the very first time, successfully addressing a long-standing challenge ...

(a) A sketch of the spin-valve effect in bulk kagome helimagnet. (b) MFM images of TmMn6Sn6 under magnetic field. (c) The asymmetric magnetoresistance for electric current along the helical axis of ...

An MIT research team has observed a previously unseen form of magnetism, one that sits outside the familiar categories of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. The discovery, termed p-wave magnetism, ...

In a world filled with high-tech robotics kits and programmable gadgets, one artist decided ...