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Like cats, magnets for physics experiments can have many lives. In 2015, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory repurposed two MRI magnets as part of a ...

High-field magnets promise a double benefit: they can raise the pressure of the plasma, which boosts the fusion reaction rate, and they can shrink the overall size of the machine, which cuts cost and ...

The giant magnet prior to the unveiling ceremony at General Atomics. (Photo by JW August/Times of San Diego) Sitting inside a building in a Poway industrial park is the result of nearly 20 years of ...

Magnets are everywhere in our daily lives, even if we don’t always notice them. From holding up notes on the fridge to powering complex machines, magnetism plays a crucial role in technology, science, ...

It will produce a magnetic field 280,000 times stronger than the one made by Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Engineers in ...

Those concepts and questions were the focus of three-panel cardboard backdrops with decorations and students standing by Tuesday at the Show Me Center during the 61st annual Southeast Missouri ...

A researcher in New Jersey says he had a nuclear fusion breakthrough while helping his son with a science project. He realized he could explore which kinds of permanent magnets could be powerful and ...