A synthetic magnetic monopole might look like this. (Courtesy: Heikka Valja) An analogue of a long-sought-after particle comprising an isolated magnetic pole has been observed by physicists in the US ...

Magnetic monopoles, long hypothesised in various extensions of the Standard Model, represent a singular source of magnetic charge—either north or south—in contrast to the dipolar nature of ...

Scientists have managed to create artificial magnetic monopoles. To do this, they merged tiny magnetic whirls, so-called skyrmions. At the point of merging, the physicists were able to create a ...

Physicists at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the UK have spotted signatures of magnetic monopoles and other unusual magnetic structures in haematite, a naturally occurring ...

In the last year, the scientific community has seen an uptick in papers about magnetic monopoles, an elementary particle that could allow scientists to move forward on their grand unification theories ...

Scientists have sharpened the theoretical framework under which monopoles can be studied. Magnetic monopoles, entities with isolated north or south magnetic poles, weren't supposed to exist. If you ...

New research using a decommissioned section of the beam pipe from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has brought scientists closer than ever before to test whether magnetic monopoles exist.

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Researchers from Imperial College London have created a structure that acts like a single pole of a magnet, a feat that has evaded scientists for decades. The researchers say their new Nature Physics ...

Magnetic monopoles, entities with isolated north or south magnetic poles, weren't supposed to exist. If you try to saw a bar magnet in half, all you succeed in getting are two magnets, each with a ...

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Editor's note: The original online version of this story was previously posted. Magnets are remarkable exemplars of fairness—every north pole is invariably accompanied by a counterbalancing south pole ...