Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie have, in cooperation with colleagues from Dresden, St. Andrews, La Plata and Oxford, for the first time observed magnetic monopoles and how they emerge in a real material.
For more details, please go through the following articles
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090903163725.htm
Magnetic monopoles spotted in spin ices
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/40302
