Child play: A children's puzzle has helped unlock the secret

People have known about magnets since ancient times, but the physics of ferromagnetism remains a mystery. Now a familiar puzzle is getting physicists closer to the answer. The 15-puzzle asks players to slide numbered tiles around a grid. When the...

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