Mystery particle could shrink your hard drive to the size of a peanut
Thursday, August 8, 2013 - 15:31
in Physics & Chemistry
A strange, newly discovered particle could shrink a laptop computer's hard drive to the size of a peanut and an iPod's drive to the size of a rice grain. The particle, called a skyrmion, is more stable and less power-hungry than its conventional, magnetic cousin.