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Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
Read article: Snell’s law for spin waves measured at long last
Law deviates from that governing light and could lead to "magnonic" devices of the future
Read article: ‘Radiation friction’ could make huge magnetic fields with lasers
Proposal for measuring poorly understood effect could boost laboratory astrophysics
Read article: Quantum simulator entangles hundreds of ions
Breakthrough could lead to better atomic clocks
Read article: What is a topological insulator?
Chris Hooley explains this phenomenon in 100 seconds
Read article: Our favourite pictures of 2015
From bursting balloons and fossils under a laser to visions of Pluto and gravitationally lensed supernovae
Read article: Physicists entangle qubits in a semiconductor at room temperature
In addition to quantum-computing applications, the system could be used as an in vivo biological sensor
Read article: Superconductor induces magnetism in non-magnetic gold
Surprising effect could be a boon to superconducting spintronics
Read article: New magnetic memory devices are difficult to corrupt
Permeability holds the key to stability in magnetic fields
Read article: ‘Decorated’ graphene is a superconductor
Depositing lithium on 2D material generates Cooper pairs
