The user magnet, installed in the Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility in Beijing's Huairou district, is the world's only superconducting magnet capable of providing ultra-strong magnetic fields ...

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 ...

Though predicted to exist, magnetic monopoles — hypothetical elementary particles with only one magnetic pole — have never been detected by scientists. But physicists have just accomplished the next ...

In 1929, Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented the cyclotron: a compact, efficient particle accelerator that used magnets. Two years later, he founded what ...

Discover three captivating science experiments that bring physics concepts to life! Watch as a water balloon burst in slow ...

From galaxies to the Sun, new research explains how turbulent motion can produce large-scale magnetic fields that remain ...

Developing a quantum magnetism library: Group leader Wei Li. (Courtesy: Wei Li) Quantum spin liquid magnets are materials that cannot arrange their magnetic moments, or spins, in a regular, stable ...

An Auburn University study finds that magnetic fields can guide electrons in plasma much like traffic signals, giving ...