Thin flakes of graphite can be tuned to exhibit three important properties.

MIT researchers show how topology can help create magnetism at higher temperatures.

The ultrasmall “switch” could be easily scaled.

MIT undergraduate researchers Helena Merker, Harry Heiberger, and Linh Nguyen, and PhD student Tongtong Liu, exploit machine-learning techniques to determine the magnetic structure of materials.

Researchers created a method for magnetically programming materials to make cubes that are very picky about what they connect with, enabling more-scalable self-assembly.

By studying the dynamics of plasma turbulence, MIT researchers are helping to solve one of the mysteries of the origins of cosmological magnetic fields.

An MIT team incorporates AI to facilitate the detection of an intriguing materials phenomenon that can lead to electronics without energy dissipation.

New image of M87 reveals how it looks in polarized light.

Physicists use extreme infrared laser pulses to reveal frozen electron waves in magnetite.

Newly synthesized compound of iron and tin atoms in 1-to-1 ratio displays unique behavior.