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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 ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has crossed two thresholds that fusion watchers have been waiting on for years: a giant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cutting a bar magnet in half won't get rid of its poles. It'll just produce two magnets, each with a north pole that will be attracted to the other magnet's south pole, and vice versa. It's this ...