Discover how to build a simple homopolar motor using everyday household items in this easy-to-follow tutorial. Learn the fundamentals of electromagnetism and magnetic polarity by assembling motors ...

Discover how to build a simple electromagnetic motor and generator using everyday materials in this hands-on science ...

New ion beam fabrication uses low cost materials to form vertical nanomagnets whose nanostrip geometry boosts sensitivity to ...

Recently, the research team led by Prof. XU Guosheng from Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Chinese Academy of Sciences demonstrated a novel "two-step" magnet ...

High-temperature superconductor magnets have the potential to lower the costs of operating particle accelerators and enable powerful new technologies like fusion reactors. But quenches -- the sudden, ...

Berkeley Lab researchers are developing an approach to avoid sudden, potentially destructive energy releases in a new generation of superconducting magnets. The particle accelerators that enable ...

Maxim Marchevsky (left) and Soren Prestemon discussing an experimental setup to test the sensitivity of a temperature monitoring system for a high temperature superconducting magnet. The particle ...