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In some transition metal oxides, disorder makes  the dielectric constant highly sensitive to an applied magnetic field over a broad range of temperatures.

Local laser heating is used to image thermally driven spin currents and voltages.

Silicon nanowire sensors offer a route to improving the sensitivity and spatial resolution of magnetic resonance force microscopy.

Helicoidal magnetic order induces a record high electrical polarization.

Advances in a magneto-optical technique will allow researchers to better understand how to control spins in a metal with short optical pulses.

A well-known model for studying magnetic phase transitions may provide a path to developing a quantum theory of gravity.

The experimental artifacts known to disrupt magnetic force microscopy measurements of small spin samples can be identified and removed.

Ferroelectric domain patterns enable voltage-induced magnetization reversal in a magnetic alloy.

An improved version of a technique for folding tiny objects from a thin membrane uses a magnetic field to affect the shape. The membrane wraps around a droplet of fluid that distorts in response to the field.

To measure atomic-scale magnetic fields, researchers propose using a molecular preamplifier to pass information about the field to an ultrasensitive atomic defect in diamond.

Electromagnons open up new opportunities to control electric and magnetic properties.

Researchers discover a subtle proximity effect at the interface between a normal metal and an antiferromagnetic insulator.

A form of quantum electrodynamics emerges from interacting spins at low temperatures in the spin ice ${\text{Yb}}_2{\text{Ti}}_2{\text{O}}_7$.

Magnetism may propel liquids in a pump without moving parts.

Magnetic ordering in a low-dimensional spin system cannot be generally excluded in the presence of spin-orbit interactions.

To complement normal NMR spectroscopy performed in high magnetic fields, researchers are developing a technique that works in nearly zero fields.

A two-dimensional trap takes advantage of the magnetic domain walls in a narrow wire to guide the thermal motion of magnetic particles.

A spin model on a honeycomb lattice points to a much sought after type of quantum spin liquid: the Bose metal.

Applying x-ray diffraction microscopy to magnetic systems yields simultaneous spatial and temporal information.

Creating a temperature difference in an arrangement of semiconductors generates a circulating current and a magnetic field, according to simulations. The effect may account for some inefficiency in electronic devices.