Bimetallic nanoalloys combining magnetic and noble metals are promising for magnetic sensors, catalysis, optical detection, and biomedical imaging applications. Their development relies on ...

In August 1979, an oil pipeline burst near Bemidji, Minn., spraying 1.7 million liters of crude oil onto the ground. Following cleanup, 400,000 liters that had seeped into sediments still remained.

Salinity in irrigation water and soil poses a major challenge to the expansion of agricultural land in Egypt. High salt concentrations can lead to significant issues for both soil health and plant ...

With copper-substituted lead apatite below room temperature, Chinese researchers observe diamagnetic dc magnetization under magnetic field of 25 Oe with remarkable bifurcation between ...

Researchers have observed directly and for the first time magnetoacoustic waves (sound-driven spin waves), which are considered as potential information carriers for novel computation schemes. These ...

The production of devices to store or transmit information is one of the most frequent technological applications of magnetism. An experimental and theoretical study conducted at the University of São ...

Gold had long been considered a non-magnetic metal. But researchers at Tohoku University recently discovered that gold can in fact be magnetized by applying heat. They discovered that an electron spin ...

Do the twist: schematic of the Einstein–de Haas experiment showing the mirror, solenoid and ferromagnetic cylinder. (Courtesy: Jasper Olbrich/CC BY-SA 3.0) Albert Einstein is famous as a theoretical ...

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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy was developed to detect protons, and has since then been applied in studying the molecular structure of proteins, RNA, DNA complexes, and interactions ...

Spin flips: physicists have magnetized water by spinning it at high speeds. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Inna Bigun) Physicists in the US have shown that rotating matter at high speeds can magnetize atomic ...