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2 August 2021

From left, Jeremy Owens, an associate professor in the FSU Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, and Sean Newby, a graduate research assistant, analyzing thallium isotopes on instruments at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

MagLab Researchers find Oxygen Spike Coincided with Ancient Global Extinction

Researchers believe the ocean oxygenation occurred over a few tens of thousands of years, a very brief period in Earth’s geological history.

29 July 2021

Chaotic electrons heed 'limit' in strange metals

Researchers define calculation framework to explain why electrons traveling in any direction in a strange metal follow the "Planckian limit.”

3 May 2021

MagLab director named to National Academy of Sciences

Greg Boebinger, director of the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, has been named a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

22 April 2021

An illustration showing quantum vortex tubes undergoing apparent superdiffusion. The white dots represent trapped particle that the researchers tracked to visualize and track the motion of the tubes, and the red lines represent the random patterns that the particles traveled.

Researchers visualize the motion of vortices in superfluid turbulence

MagLab researchers visualized vortex tubes in a quantum fluid, findings that could help scientists better understand turbulence in quantum fluids, superconductors and beyond.

21 April 2021

You Lai (left) and Johanna Palmstrom (right) use the new duplex magnet at the Los Alamos MagLab Pulsed Field Facility. The same magnet was recently used for the first time in a series of experiments on the exotic Kondo insulator YbB12.

New pulsed magnet reveals a new state of matter in Kondo insulator

The experiment is the first to use the new duplex magnet at the National MagLab's Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos.

19 April 2021

Abiola Temidayo Oloye, left, a fifth-year doctoral candidate and the lead author of a study published in Superconductor Science and Technology, at an electron microscope with Fumitake Kametani, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and principal investigator for the study at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

Improving high-temperature superconductor wire performance

New research to understand how processing impacts bismuth-based superconducting wires could help power future magnets or particle accelerators.

1 April 2021

International study discovers ancient meteoritic impact over Antarctica 430,000 years ago

Evidence indicates that this Antarctic airburst is the largest known airburst ever.

29 March 2021

World's strongest superconducting magnet open for science

Made with high-temperature superconductors, the National MagLab's newest instrument offers researchers strength and stability to explore quantum materials.

23 March 2021

Researchers have discovered a way to manipulate the repulsive force between electrons in "magic-angle" graphene, which provides new insight into how this material is able to conduct electricity with zero resistance.

New research on superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene

A story of synergistic science showcases how theory and experimental research teamed up to yield first direct evidence of the nature of superconductivity in a promising material called magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene.

17 February 2021

MagLab Open House 2021 moves online

The science fun moves online with live virtual sessions, video demos, all-access virtual tours and online games.

10 February 2021

International study shows asteroids as past, possible future water source

New research finds evidence that Earth's water originated in asteroids.

20 January 2021

New agreement to bolster industry partnerships

Tallahassee Company MagCorp to Partner with National MagLab.

4 December 2020

MagLab physicist named AAAS fellow

Marcelo Jaime recognized for his contributions to experimental physics in high magnetic fields.

5 October 2020

Scientists working at the National MagLab have found evidence of a quantum spin liquid in ruthenium trichloride (RuCl3). Read more about this image below.

Scientists find evidence of a spin liquid state in candidate material for quantum computers

A new experimental technique allowed physicists to precisely probe the electron spins of an intriguing compound and uncover unexpected behavior.

22 September 2020

MagLab superconductivity expert elected fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering

David Larbalestier is the first Florida State faculty member ever to receive the honor.

21 September 2020

Participants in the 2019 SciGirls Coding Camp at the MagLab practice their skills.

Personal interactions are important drivers of STEM identity in girls

Research on MagLab science camp yields a framework for better understanding how to encourage girls and underrepresented minorities in STEM's most male-dominated field.

17 July 2020

Research scientists Shreyas Balachandran (left) and William Starch draw lengths of niobium-tin superconducting wire at the Applied Superconductivity Center at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. A new grant of $1.5 million will allow the group to continue this research.

MagLab awarded $1.5 million to develop better superconductors

Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy will further research that will help make the next generation of high-energy particle accelerators.

13 July 2020

Photos of asphalt binder before and after being exposed to water and a solar simulator for a week.

Sun, rain transform asphalt binder into potentially toxic compounds

MagLab researchers show that exposure to sun and water causes thousands of chemicals to leach from roads into the environment.

6 July 2020

$A monolayer semiconductor is found to be a close-to-ideal platform for fractional quantum Hall states - a quantum liquid that emerges under large perpendicular magnetic fields. The image illustrates monolayer WSe2 hosting "composite fermions", a quasi-particle that forms due to the strong interactions between electrons and is responsible for the sequence of fractional quantum Hall states.$

2D semiconductors found to be close-to-ideal fractional Quantum Hall platform

Columbia researchers first to discover a quantum fluid—fractional quantum Hall states, one of the most delicate phases of matter—in a monolayer 2D semiconductor; finding could provide a unique test platform for future applications in quantum computing.