Plan a route, grab some snacks, and fuel up. Engineers and scientists have been sending massive magnets from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national labs on cross-country road trips. Magnets are at ...

Imagine trying to catch a fragment of a rocket nozzle in orbit above Earth’s atmosphere. The fragment is travelling faster than a bullet, and tumbling rapidly end over end. Around 27,000 orbiting ...

Graphene, that is extremely thin carbon, is considered a true miracle material. An international research team has now added another facet to its diverse properties with new experiments: Experts fired ...

Jake J Abbott developed a new way to manipulate orbiting space debris using spinning magnets. (Courtesy: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering) Researchers at the University of Utah in ...

Part of Combined Science Interactions over small and large distances The strength of the electromagnet can be increased by passing more electric current through the coils and/or wrapping more coils ...

Magnets like this one are great at picking up metal objects like these, but once you pick them up how do you let them go? For that you need a special type of magnet – an electromagnet. Magnetism and ...

Electromagnets are strong. They might be able to power railguns and hyperloop trains, but they can also blow stuff up. Like soda cans. An electric current always creates a magnetic field. As the ...

Dr. Stephan Winnerl (right) talks to FELBE physicist Dr. John Michael Klopf about experiments at the HZDR's FELBE free-electron lasers. Graphene, that is extremely thin carbon, is considered a true ...