PPPL’s new National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade will play an important role in the Department of Energy's Fusion ...

The Cold Atom Lab is a facility for the study of ultra-cold quantum gases in the microgravity environment of the ...

A massive magnet that crossed the Atlantic Ocean has brought one of America’s most ...

China has set a new benchmark in extreme magnet science after researchers built the strongest all-superconducting user magnet ever. On Tuesday, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced that a new ...

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It is not known when humans first noticed the attraction or repulsion between pieces of magnetic material. The first important device depending on these forces was the magnetic compass, which is ...

Aaron Rossini of Iowa State and Ames National Laboratory with the nuclear magnetic resonance instrument in his Hach Hall lab. Iowa State University/Christopher Gannon. Iowa State's Aaron Rossini has ...

How pigeons fly hundreds of kilometers and still find their way home has long fascinated people. Now, researchers say a surprising answer may be hidden, not in the brain or eyes of birds, but in the ...

In response to an informal request from the National Science Foundation, the National Research Council convened the Committee on Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science in mid-2003. The committee ...