A team of scientists has made a major breakthrough in fusion energy research that could bring us a step closer to limitless energy. The researchers, at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), have ...
A research team led by Kuang Guangli and Jiang Donghui at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CHMFL), has developed a ...
Pacific Fusion’s simplified fusion target, tested at Sandia, could remove costly magnetic coils and lower reactor costs.
OpenStar Technologies, a New Zealand-based fusion energy startup, has trapped plasma inside a levitated superconducting magnet, a feat that no company or laboratory had previously achieved with ...
Twists and turns Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X stellarator will use a complex magnetic-field design to sustain a hydrogen plasma for about 30 min. (Courtesy: IPP/Wolfgang Filser) In February 2016 German ...
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 ...