Ho-hum to High Performance: Researchers 'Stretch' a Lackluster Material Into a Possible Electronics Revolution
Researchers at Cornell University, The Ohio State University, and Penn State University recently collaborated to transform an exotic material that normally has no electric or magnetic properties into one that has both at the same time. By doing so, they may have found a basis to form low-power, highly sensitive magnetic memory, magnetic sensors or highly tunable microwave devices.

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Scientists achieve highest-resolution MRI of a magnet
In a development that holds potential for both data storage and biomedical imaging, Ohio State researchers have used a new technique to obtain the highest-ever resolution MRI scan of the inside of a magnet. Chris Hammel, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Experimental Physics, and his colleagues took a tiny magnetic disk and were able to obtain magnetic resonance images of its interior. The resulting image -- with each "pixel" one tenth the size of the disk itself -- is the highest-resolution image ever taken of the magnetic fields and interactions inside of a magnet. Read more here.