Researchers from Imperial College London have created a structure that acts like a single pole of a magnet, a feat that has evaded scientists for decades. The researchers say their new Nature Physics ...

Physicists at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the UK have spotted signatures of magnetic monopoles and other unusual magnetic structures in haematite, a naturally occurring ...

True north: schematic representation of a magnetic monopole and its field lines. (Courtesy: Kavli IPMU) A new benchmark has been set in the search for hypothetical magnetic monopoles produced in the ...

You’ve probably heard of the Higgs boson. This elusive particle was predicted to exist long ago and helped explain why the universe works the way it does, but it took decades for us to detect. Well, ...

A physicist has been studing magnetic monopoles in spin ice crystals, explains why double layers of magnetic charges can be found. OIST's physicist studies magnetic monopoles in spin ice crystals and ...

In work published in Physical Review Letters, scientists from RIKEN in Japan have discovered interesting new magnetic properties of a type of materials known as "quantum spin ice." These materials ...

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Magnetic monopoles, long hypothesised in various extensions of the Standard Model, represent a singular source of magnetic charge—either north or south—in contrast to the dipolar nature of ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

While magnetic monopoles in the form of elementary particles remain elusive, there have been some recent successes in engineering objects that behave effectively like magnetic monopoles. Now, ...

In work published in Physical Review Letters, scientists from RIKEN in Japan have discovered interesting new magnetic properties of a type of materials known as "quantum spin ice." These materials ...