A laser trick in nanometer-thin magnets hints at faster storage and computing without exotic laboratory conditions ...

By shining a focused laser beam onto a sample of material, a team at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and ETH Zürich showed ...

By forcing crystal structures to compete, scientists uncovered a new way to make magnetism twist. Florida State University scientists have developed a new crystalline material whose magnetic behavior ...

Researchers demonstrate how to change the frequency of the collective magnetic oscillations of a material by up to 40% by ...

Georgetown University researchers have discovered a new class of strong magnets that do not rely on rare-earth or precious ...

Florida State University scientists have engineered a new crystal that forces atomic magnets to swirl into complex, repeating ...

OSAKA, Japan — The future of computer memory might not lie in electrical currents, but in the precise manipulation of magnetic fields. Scientists at Osaka University have demonstrated a novel approach ...

Scientists from IBM and the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) have built the world's smallest magnetic data storage unit. It uses just twelve atoms per bit, the basic unit of ...

Optical storage and even DNA storage could be a significant contender for the digital archive market in the coming decades.

Scientists from MIT have been blasting magnets with lasers, which is more scientific than it sounds. Researchers working with antiferromagnetic material have devised a way to control the magnetic ...

College Park, MD (April 19, 2011) — Using well-known patterned media, a team of researchers in France has figured out a way to double the areal density of information by essentially cutting the ...