Magnetic techniques encompass a broad class of experimental and analytical methods that exploit magnetic fields or magnetic properties of materials to probe, manipulate, or measure physical, chemical, or biological systems. These include measurements of magnetization and susceptibility (e.g., SQUID magnetometry, vibrating sample magnetometry), magnetic resonance–based methods (such as NMR, EPR/ESR, and MRI), and techniques relying on magnetic labeling or separation in bioassays and materials processing. They are used to characterize electronic and spin structures, phase transitions, nanoparticle behavior, and transport phenomena, as well as to enable targeted manipulation, imaging, or sorting of cells, molecules, and functional materials.
Artificial intelligence faces an energy crisis stemming from a physical traffic jam inside modern computer chips. Processors must continually shuffle data, such as the billions of parameters in complex models, between separate ...
Condensed Matter
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Materials with magnetic nanostructures have a wide range of potential applications. One area is so-called spintronics, with devices that encode information in magnetic domains. These magnetic bits can be written, read and ...
Nanophysics
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Scientists have long known that heat can be used to help fight cancer. But heating tumors and cancer cells is trickier than it sounds. Apply too much heat and patients could get hurt; apply too little or target the wrong ...
Bio & Medicine
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Superconductors have long been considered a promising technology for the energy systems of the future. They can conduct electricity without resistance, thus eliminating both conduction losses and waste heat. Up to now, however, ...
Superconductivity
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Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method that uses a single ion to detect electromagnetic fields above a surface and to create a three-dimensional map of them. In the future, this approach can be used to improve ...
Condensed Matter
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A research team led by Prof. Zhang Jinglei from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found that the trilayer nickelate La4Ni3O10-δ exhibits a nearly isotropic upper critical field under high ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 25, 2026
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Nanorobots have shown great promise in precision medicine over the past few decades. Yet one key challenge remains: how to track and guide these tiny devices in real time as they move through complex physiological environments. ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 20, 2026
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Physicists at University College Cork have developed a new approach in the search for a quantum spin liquid, a long-sought state of quantum matter resembling a magnetic liquid whose quantum properties mean it never freezes. ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 10, 2026
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In a significant advance in biological quantum sensing, a research team led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has discovered and tested a new mechanism of action in which proteins can be controlled with radio waves. ...
Biotechnology
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An international research team, including scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), has achieved a methodological breakthrough in the study of superhydrides, a promising class of superconductors. For ...
Condensed Matter
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