A recent research establishes a phenomenon called Mpemba effect to be existing in magnets too. the new research can bring a new perspective to thermal control in devices.
- Earlier, the phenomenon was found in water.
- Mpemba effect is a paradoxical phenomenon in which a hot liquid can cool or freeze faster than a cold liquid under certain conditions.
- The effect described by Aristotle, in his book Meterologica, was rediscovered in 1960s by Erasto Mpemba, a schoolboy then in Tanzania.