{"id":245839,"date":"2026-10-23T01:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/forgotten-material-from-the-1960s-is-hiding-something-unexpected"},"modified":"2026-10-23T01:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:51:04","slug":"forgotten-material-from-the-1960s-is-hiding-something-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/forgotten-material-from-the-1960s-is-hiding-something-unexpected","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Material From the 1960s Is Hiding Something Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A long-overlooked material has revealed a hidden atomic pattern that challenges conventional expectations about magnetism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A uranium compound that has received little scientific attention for decades has been found to contain a previously unknown atomic structure with unusual magnetic properties. The discovery could help researchers identify materials capable of supporting faster, more resilient computer memory.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists discovered a repeating, twisted arrangement of atoms known as a chiral superlattice inside uranium oxytelluride (UOTe). The structure appears to play a central role in how electrons move through the crystal, which exhibits an uncommon combination of two different types of magnetism. The findings were published online October 7 in <em><i>Nature<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-overlooked material has revealed a hidden atomic pattern that challenges conventional expectations about magnetism. A uranium compound that has received little scientific attention for decades has been found to contain a previously unknown atomic structure with unusual magnetic properties. The discovery could help researchers identify materials capable of supporting faster, more resilient computer memory. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}