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helium: a weighty question

My research focuses on how magnets behave when you make them very, very small. (The broad answer is: really interestingly and often unpredictably.) Like many people who study the physical world, it is much easier to get at the basic nature of a material if you cool the material to very low temperatures. Cooling literally “freezes out” many effects, making the system simpler to understand.

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