Today's Tech News: Notable or Not?

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-experimental-evidence-altermagnetism-layered-material.html "altermagnets combine antiferromagnets' 0 net external magnetization with ferromagnets' strong, spin-polarized electronic bands... stray magnetic fields eliminated/ spin-polarized electron transport (large spin splitting) retained... properties sustained/ manipulated in low-dimensional material geometries... transformative foundation for high-density, ultra-fast, non-volatile spintronic memory and logic devices"

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-superconducting-altermagnets-energy-loss.html#google_vignette "moving information (electron's spin) moves its charge generating heat through resistance, solved using  altermagnets: no net magnetism like antiferromagnets but possess spin-split electronic bands like ferromagnets...  interplay between these polarizes Cooper pairs enabling electron movement more easily in some directions than others for highly directed, lossless energy flow... data processed using spintronics rather than charge: stable, higher-temperature quantum computers 1,000X faster using fraction of power" Related: Rice researchers discover new way to tune electron flow in altermagnet material https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1139918 A small squeeze reveals new clues about an unusual kind of magnet https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1140071