Sure, you’ve got a magnetic personality and can charm customers into expanding the scope of the original project into what they really need done so their equipment is reliable. It doesn’t hurt that ...

The entry of quantum computers into society is currently hindered by their sensitivity to disturbances in the environment. Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, and Aalto ...

MIT physicists have demonstrated a new form of magnetism that could one day be harnessed to build faster, denser, and less power-hungry "spintronic" memory chips. The new magnetic state is a mash-up ...

A new laser and microtube method lets scientists make huge magnetic fields for research. Previous lab-made magnetic fields were piddly and unimpressive, through no one's fault. These powerful magnetic ...

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