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First-Ever View Of The Sun’s Polar Magnetic Field Reveals Major Surprise

This year, for the first time in history, we got the first image of the polar region of the Sun. The European Space Agency’s ...
NextBigFuture

0.7 Tesla Magnet with Very Even Field Could Enable Palm Sized Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Today bulky and expensive superconducting magnets are used to generate the strong magnetic fields (about seven tesla) needed for precision NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance). While portable magnets have ...
Science Daily

3-D-printed magnets: How can you produce a magnet with exactly the right magnetic field?

How can you produce a magnet with exactly the right magnetic field? A research team now has a solution: for the first time, they have created magnets with a 3D printer. Today, manufacturing strong ...
Science Daily

World's Largest Superconducting Solenoid Magnet Reaches Full Field

The world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet has reached full field. Weighing in at over 10,000 tonnes, the CMS experiment's magnet is built around a 6-metre diameter, 13-metre long ...