These new iron-nitride magnets are stronger, cleaner to make, and made from domestic iron-salt waste and nitrogen.

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 ...

Engineers are shipping the world’s most powerful magnet to the construction site of the world’s largest experimental fusion reactor called ITER in France. The massive 1,000 ton solenoid, a type of ...

In the field of nuclear fusion some are going big with their pursuit of clean, inexhaustible energy, like those piecing together the seven-story building to house ITER, the world's largest tokamak ...

The new world-record magnet connected to cooling water pipes. Some 4,275 gallons of cold water flush through it per minute to keep it cool. Florida can once again brag about having the world's ...

Two researchers who independently developed the neodymium magnet — used in everything from hard disk drives to automobiles — have been awarded the 44th Honda Prize. In 1982, two researchers working ...

The University will have a new force to be reckoned with when construction of a facility housing the world’s most powerful magnet is completed in June. The Center for Magnetic Resonance Research on ...

New satellite data show Earth’s magnetic field changing fast, with a growing weak spot over the South Atlantic.