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Re:Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China on Thursday September 07, 2017 @12:45PM (#15193531)
The iPhone 7 comes with two DACs, there's one in the earphones too now.
Yep, title is bad, better would be "Physicists Just Generated a Fermion That Acts as Its Own Antiparticle", or more concisely: "Physicists Just Generated a Majorana Fermion".

All bosons (e.g. photons) are their own antiparticle, so this is a rare instance of science writing where the headline is LESS interesting than the actual work done.

> Like, I haven't found much details about the actual physical experiments around the spin of electrons (and certainly not of other particles).

The Stern-Gerlach experiment (1922) is what you're looking for. "Modern Quantum Mechanics" by Sakurai opens with an explanation of this experiment and its consequences.