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[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

I bet you don’t know how to use the three shells

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nano machines!? I wonder if this will allow smaller than 1nm chip manufacturing.

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

THE NANO MACHINES WILL ALLOW MORE MEMES

[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a second form of magnetism?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month 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

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

He has the kavorka!

[–] whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

2025 we’re finding out animal magnetism was real all along, but it requires a certain concentration of microplastics to work

[–] UniversalMonk@mander.xyz -4 points 1 month ago

The best kind!

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Spintronics", man, physicist have the best names for fields of study.

[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

I thought that was an 80s new wave band, tbh.

[–] AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

and Antiferro-, Ferrimagnetism.

[–] determinism2@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Sounds great, a new type of bullshit for me to try to remember how it works every few years.

[–] mbt2402@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

shout out to d-wave electron systems gotta be one of my favorite genders fr

[–] arken@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Mesmer was right all along

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Magnets are the solution, just you wait

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

[–] theorychapter@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago

This is my first time seeing this article and I scroll through all a few times a day

[–] UniversalMonk@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sorry, it was my first time seeing it. And when I posted it to this community, I didn't get an alert that it's already been posted. So I posted.

I sorta go on a science binge every few weeks. So I just read a bunch and post what is interesting. But I don't follow it every day. Hence me replying to you after 18 days. Thanks!