All articles starting with M

Magnolia champaca

Magnolia champaca (黄兰), formerly Michelia champaca, is a Southeast Asian magnolia tree up to 50 m with fragrant yellow-orange flowers yielding champaca absolute for perfumery, attar, timber, and Ayurvedic medicine; IUCN Least Concern.

Magnolia grandiflora

Magnolia grandiflora (southern magnolia, bull bay), evergreen Magnoliaceae tree native SE USA to Texas, 1759 Linnaeus name, 60-80 ft, fragrant white flowers to 25 cm, USDA zones 7A-10A, IUCN Least Concern, beetle-pollinated, widely planted ornamental.

Magnolia Network

Magnolia Network is an American cable channel and streaming brand, a joint venture between Chip and Joanna Gaines and Discovery that replaced the DIY Network on January 5, 2022.

Oct 21, 2026

Magnolia officinalis

Magnolia officinalis (厚朴, houpo), Houpu magnolia, is a Chinese magnolia tree whose bark yields the neolignans magnolol and honokiol; used in traditional medicine, endangered in the wild, preclinical anti-Alzheimer's activity.

Magnolia Oil & Gas

Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation is a Houston-based independent oil and gas exploration and production company targeting the Eagle Ford Shale and Austin Chalk formations in South Texas.

Magnoliaceae

Magnoliaceae, the magnolia family, is a magnoliid flowering plant family with two genera, Magnolia and Liriodendron, over 300 species in Asia and the Americas, spirally arranged tepaloid flowers, beetle pollination, and many threatened species.

Oct 21, 2026

Magnoliales

Magnoliales is an order of magnoliid flowering plants with six APG IV families (Annonaceae, Magnoliaceae, Myristicaceae, Degeneriaceae, Eupomatiaceae, Himantandraceae), about 3,000 species, Cretaceous fossils, and crown age 164–115 Myr.

Magnolol

Magnolol is a dimeric phenolic neolignan (C18H18O2) and a primary active component of Magnolia officinalis bark, used in Chinese and Japanese herbal medicine and studied for anti-inflammatory, antitumor, and neuroprotective effects.

Magnon

A magnon is the quantum of a spin wave, the collective wavelike disturbance of aligned spins in a magnetically ordered solid; carrying spin but no electric charge, it underlies magnonics.

Magnon polarons

A magnon polaron is a hybrid quasiparticle formed when a magnon and a phonon couple through magnetoelastic interaction, marked by an anticrossing in their dispersion relations.

Magnon spin Nernst effect

The magnon spin Nernst effect is the generation of a transverse pure spin current carried by magnons when a temperature gradient is applied to a magnetic material.

Magnon transistor

A magnon transistor is a three-terminal device that controls the flow of magnons, the quasiparticles of spin waves, first demonstrated in 2014 in yttrium iron garnet by Chumak, Serga, and Hillebrands.

Magnon valleytronics

Magnon valleytronics is a research field that encodes information in the valley index of magnons, combining magnonics with valleytronics; a magnon valley Hall effect was reported in CrI3 in 2020.

Magnon valve

A magnon valve is a three-layer spintronic device, typically YIG/Au/YIG, whose magnon current is transmitted or attenuated depending on the magnetization alignment of two magnetic layers.

Magnon–qubit strong coupling

Magnon–qubit strong coupling is the regime where a magnon coherently exchanges energy with a qubit, first demonstrated in 2014 using a YIG sphere in a microwave cavity.

Magnonics

Magnonics is the field of physics and engineering concerned with generating, propagating, manipulating, and detecting spin waves and their quanta, magnons, in magnetically ordered materials, promising low-power computing.

Magnora Data Center

Magnora Data Center ASA is a Nordic data center project developer spun off from Norway's renewable-energy group Magnora ASA, listed on Euronext Growth Oslo in June 2026.

Magnox

Magnox was a class of first-generation British nuclear reactors, carbon dioxide-cooled and graphite-moderated, burning natural uranium in magnesium alloy cladding; Calder Hall, the first station, opened in 1956.

Magnum (band)

Magnum, Birmingham melodic hard rock band formed 1972 by Tony Clarkin and Bob Catley; 23 studio albums, breakthrough On a Storyteller's Night (1985), peak Wings of Heaven (1988), final Clarkin album Here Comes the Rain (2024).

Magnum (Eemshaven) power station

The Magnum power station at Eemshaven is a natural gas-fired plant in Groningen, the Netherlands, commissioned in 2013 with three combined cycle units totaling 1,410 MW.

Magnum (ice cream)

Magnum is a premium chocolate-coated ice cream bar launched by Unilever's Wall's brand in 1989, known for its cracking shell and the 'Nothing Cracks Like Magnum' campaign; it is now a flagship brand of The Magnum Ice Cream Company, listed in December 2025.

Magnum Concilium

Magnum Concilium, the Great Council of medieval England: assembly of nobles and church leaders summoned outside the Curia regis, chiefly for taxation consent; ancestor of the House of Lords, regulated by Magna Carta clause 14.

Magnum Force

Magnum Force (1973), also known by its working title Vigilance, is Ted Post's Dirty Harry sequel in which Clint Eastwood's Harry Callahan hunts rogue SFPD motorcycle cops executing criminals; written by John Milius and Michael Cimino, it earned $39.8 million.

Magnum opus (alchemy)

The magnum opus, or Great Work, is the complete alchemical process of refining raw matter through color stages such as nigredo and rubedo into the philosopher's stone.

Magnum P.I. (2018 TV series)

Magnum P.I. (2018) is a CBS action crime drama reboot developed by Peter M. Lenkov and Eric Guggenheim, starring Jay Hernandez as Navy SEAL-turned-Hawaii PI Thomas Magnum with Perdita Weeks as Juliet Higgins; four CBS seasons, then a final NBC season.