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Spin waves carry energy from cold to hot

22 Apr 2013
Photograph of some hot metal
Hot and cold (Courtesy: iStockphoto/tomonikon)
Heat normally flows from hot to cold, but now physicists in Japan and Germany have shown that spin w

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