Monday 29 July 2019

Alexander Fleming’s Serendipitous Discovery Of Penicillin,


changed the course of medicine and earned him a Nobel Prize,


although it took a decade or so for him to realise the significance of his discovery, so on to another piece of scientific serendipitous discovery,

 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California allowed scientists to alter the magnetic matter, Thomas Russell, a distinguished professor of polymer science and engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who was a senior author on the paper, tilted Reconfigurable ferromagnetic liquid droplets, in it apparently the permanent magnetization could be controlled by coupling and uncoupling the magnetization of individual nanoparticles, making it possible to “write and erase” shapes of the droplets or to elongate them into cylinders, (Video Credit: Berkeley Lab/ YouTube), while magnets can take all kinds of forms, like the ones that hold up papers on refrigerators or the electromagnets that are made of copper and wire, they're usually solids, but for the first time, scientists have created a permanently magnetic liquid, and they did it by accident!


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