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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trapping Spren in Fabrials is challenging!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Stop spilling the artifabrian secrets.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Since the light bounces back and forth inside the magnet, interactions are genuinely enhanced,” CCNY’s Florian Dirnberger, the lead-author of the study, said in a press statement. “To give an example, when we apply an external magnetic field the near-infrared reflection of light is altered so much, the material basically changes its color. That's a pretty strong magneto-optic response.”

That's really neat. Maybe this can lead to actual active camouflage. Still early days though so who knows.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This is so far above my head that I’m not certain what to be excited about, but I’ve always been convinced the answer is magnets so..