Magnets are usually solids. But for the first time, scientists have made a permanently magnetic liquid and they made it by accident. The serendipitous creation which was made 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, told LiveScience that scientists could "make magnets that are liquid and they could conform to different shapes—and the shapes are really up to you."
More details of this accidental creation on Popular Mechanics.
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