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University of Leicester engineers have unveiled a concept for a device designed to magnetically "cloak" sensitive components, ...

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A NIMS research team has developed a new experimental method capable of rapidly evaluating numerous material compositions by measuring anomalous Hall resistivity 30 times faster than conventional ...

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A long-standing explanation for magnetoresistance may be incomplete. New evidence suggests a universal interfacial mechanism ...

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