This could change the game.
    • P03 LockeEnglish
      10•10 days ago

      Everybody gave them shit for admitting to not know how magnets work (in a song), and yet, 99% of the public don’t even know there’s three forms.

  • @[email protected]English
    30•11 days ago

    For anyone interested in what they could be used for, but without time to read the article,

    On a nano level, everything we store inside our devices is the result of the coordinated action of electrons. If these materials could be improved, it could mean higher efficiency, more storage within the same size of material, and less loss when data is accessed.

    Because

    …in [this] paper, scientists show that they can tune these materials very precicely in order to create specific directions of magnetism.

    While the traditional ferromagnets we use today are fine in many ways, they aren’t ideal, and can introduce a blurring between separated bits of data known as crosstalk.

  • @frostysauce
    17•10 days ago

    There’s a second form of magnetism?

    • @[email protected]
      9•10 days ago

      apparently it’s one of those “technically correct but also obviously nonsense” things: there’s no different type of electromagnetism, but specific materials can be magnetic in different ways, dimagnetic/ferromagnetic/paramagnetic, and the stuff the article is about seems to be at least the fourth kind… urgh

  • esa
    8•11 days ago

    Uh, don’t we already have three? Dia-, ferro- and paramagnetism?

  • kronisk
    2•11 days ago

    Mesmer was right all along

  • @Mojave
    -3•10 days ago

    Real question:

    This article has been SPAMMED over Lemmy for the past week, what made you post it 8 days after it was made?

    That’s essentially old news on a platform that moves as fast as this