Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steel parts and aluminum cans could soon be made with far less energy, thanks to the University of Florida. In a collaboration ...

Skyrmions are minuscule vortices that form when the magnetic flux of a group of atoms organizes into swirling patterns. Skyrmions can move around inside a material, and under certain conditions they ...

Magnets have fascinated humans for several thousand years and enabled the age of digital data storage. They occur in various flavors. Ferrimagnets form the largest class of magnets and consist of two ...

A single, ultrafast laser pulse has flipped the polarity of a ferromagnet without first heating it to the brink of losing its magnetism, pointing to a new way to write data at extreme speeds with far ...