Twelve houses in Astley still have water in their gardens from a flooded field at the back of their properties.

BBC: Astley villagers' gardens still flooded after 10 weeks

Its optical properties might be modified by merely applying a magnetic field.

FORBES: Magazine Article

These discoveries have given birth to a field of endeavour that is known as spintronics, because the magnetic properties of a material depend on a quantum-mechanical property of electrons called spin.

ECONOMIST: Spintronics

First and foremost is the question of how the invisible background field tied to the existence of the Higgs came to be and why it has the properties it does.

CNN: Higgs and the holy grail of physics