Physicists have discovered a much faster approach to create a pattern of spins in a magnet. This 'shortcut' opens a new chapter in topology research. Interestingly, this discovery also offers an ...

What if a fidget spinner suddenly changes its rotation pattern mid-spin without anyone touching it? That’s essentially what Comet 117P/2003 S2 appears to have done in space, and Hubble caught the ...

For decades, astronomers have looked to the outer reaches of the cosmos for answers to our most fundamental questions: Where did we come from? What lies beyond? And how does it all work? A recent ...

Saturn’s northern lights heat one side of the planet’s upper atmosphere and drive winds that mimic changes in its spin.

A new study reveals how a spinning vortex causes system-wide, counter-rotating wave patterns, mimicking effects that occur, ...

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, ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected shared pattern in the collective movement of bacteria and electrons: As billions of bacteria stream through a microfluidic lattice, they synchronize and swim ...

The development of significantly faster computers might be feasible if the spin of electrons could be used as information carrier in data processing. What is this electron spin? The spin gives the ...