The Earth is the only planet in the universe that we know for sure supports life. While it is likely that many others do, it ...

It'll just produce two magnets, each with a north pole that ... director of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. While people have been using magnets for thousands ...

Magnets and superconductors go together like oil and water—or so scientists have thought. But a new finding by MIT physicists ...

The United States allowed its rare earth metals industry to move to China and could now face severe economic disruption as ...

The stacking of graphene layers creates a material that can carry electricity without resistance and behave like a magnet at ...

gap in the center of a superconducting magnet, allowing the two to join forces to produce an incredibly strong magnetic field. On August 12, the hybrid magnet produced a record-breaking steady ...

Resistive magnets can create fields much more powerful than superconducting magnets, but the two together form a magnetic dream team. CHMFL’s 45.22 tesla hybrid magnet is the most powerful of ...

In it, two strong magnets sitting some distance apart create a magnetic field that holds the plasma in a shape that looks like a Tootsie roll. The magnets compress the plasma at either end ...