What is the deepest level of reality? In this Quanta explainer, Vijay Balasubramanian, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, takes us on a journey through space-time to investigate what it’s ...

Each atom acts like a mini magnet with a north pole that points up or down. Mark Belan/Quanta Magazine If the atoms line up in some pattern — all pointing the same way, for instance — the material has ...

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