Imagine two toroidal permanent magnets arranged such that one is floating above the other for year after year. Where is the energy that powers this effect coming from? A couple of months ago, I penned ...
Scientists at IBS CAPP are prototyping haloscopes -- machines that hunt for dark matter. Haloscope have very strong magnets. Helix-shaped magnets (solenoid magnets, on the left) are commonly used in ...
The bundle of magnets at the heart of the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's (PPPL) National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U) is the star of the show. Its ...
ITER, the largest testing bed for nuclear fusion on Earth, could prove the viability of the power source—if it ever turns on. Reading time 3 minutes It took 20 years, but the design and delivery of ...
After two decades of design, production, fabrication and assembly on three continents, the historic, multinational ITER fusion energy project today celebrates the completion and delivery of its ...
A delivery ceremony has been held for the toroidal field magnet coil box - measuring 21 metres by 12 metres - at the Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology in Hefei, China. (Image: ...
ATLAS is a particle physics experiment which has been designed to analyze data gathered from CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) scheduled to start its activity in November 2007. One of the components ...