Kiwi startup OpenStar's bold move to use levitating dipole reactor for fusion achieved a key milestone with its first plasma.

No, that wouldn't matter, there is no ban on nuclear power (whether fission or fusion) in NZ, there is a ban on nuclear weapons, and a ban on nuclear powered ships entering NZ waters. Which will be ...

A new position sensor for robotics finds a middle ground between high-performance costly optical solutions and affordable but ...

Melexis introduces Arcminaxis™ magnetic position sensing technology for robotic joint applications. The MLX90384, featuring ...

Melexis has cone up with Arcminaxis -  a magnetic technology for affordable, high-precision position sensing in robotic ...

The rapid loss of the magnetic field over North America is still unexplained but is linked to the shift of geomagnetic poles ...

The plasma magnet drive with dynamic soaring is a system that could be plausibly scaled for human crewed missions up to 2-3% ...

Why are there atomic clocks but no nuclear clocks? After all, an atom's nucleus is typically surrounded by many electrons, so ...

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For the levitated dipole, the superconductors are contained within a doughnut-shaped magnet with field lines emanating outwards, confining plasma around the magnet in a dipole shape. "We can ...

Superconductors are housed within Junior, and the magnetic field lines emanate outwards in a dipole shape, confining the plasma around the magnet. “Besides the physics advantage of pulling instead of ...