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Condensed matter

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News

Quantum magnetism simulated using ultracold fermions

Antiferromagnetic interaction created between potassium atoms

Magnetic dipoles line up

New interactions could be used to develop future hard-disk drives

Heinrich Rohrer: 1933–2013

Scanning tunnelling microscope pioneer shared Nobel prize

Flipping spins spread like wildfire

Magnetic system could shed light on forest fires and chemical reactions

In depth

Consciousness from the ground up

Werner Loewenstein's Physics in Mind, reviewed by Seth Lloyd

Thinking big about the future

Kirstin Matthews and Padraig Moloney argue for more basic science spending

Between the lines

Books about back-of-the-envelope calculations, cosmology and water waves, reviewed by Matin Durrani and Tushna Commissariat

Vital forces

A rare popular-science book on biophysics, reviewed by Richard Jones