Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have overturned a 180-year-old scientific assumption, proving ...

For nearly two centuries, physics textbooks have treated light as magnetically indifferent to the materials it passes through ...

An experiment 180 years ago first demonstrated a connection between light and electromagnetism – but the link is deeper than ...

Magnetic sectors were the mass analyzers used in the early days of mass spectrometry. Those instruments were quite large, and today, other, more compact, types of mass analyzers capable of separating ...

Physicists have found a way to reverse electron spins using electric fields for the first time, paving the way for programmable spintronics technologies. Spintronics is a field of physics that studies ...

Monitoring precession: The researchers measured the electron electric dipole moment in hafnium fluoride ions confined within an ion trap. (Courtesy: Casey Cass/University of Colorado) One way to look ...

A new low-power technique for detecting the spin of electrons in a non-magnetic system could aid the development of spintronics devices that work using ferroelectricity rather than ferromagnetism.