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[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 55 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

THE NANO MACHINES WILL ALLOW MORE MEMES

[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's a second form of magnetism?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 months ago

He has the kavorka!

[–] whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months 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 -5 points 11 months ago

The best kind!

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

and Antiferro-, Ferrimagnetism.

[–] determinism2@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] arken@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Mesmer was right all along

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months ago

Magnets are the solution, just you wait

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 23 points 11 months ago

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

[–] UniversalMonk@mander.xyz -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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!