China has quietly crossed a threshold in magnet technology that most people will never see but many will eventually feel. By ...

In Hefei, China, physicists switched on a new machine that pushed magnetic fields to record strength. As the device powered up, it held a magnetic field more than 700,000 times stronger than Earth’s ...

To many businesses and people in the energy industry, fusion is presently the Holy Grail everybody is chasing. If, somehow, our species manages to replicate the process that powers the Sun, we might ...

The quest for the world's strongest magnet faced a surprisingly violent problem: they kept exploding. At least, that was the issue facing a group of scientists at the National High Magnetic Field ...