Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Scientists have figured out a way to create and cancel magnetic fields from afar. The method involves running electric current through a special arrangement of wires to create a magnetic field that ...

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Fusion power may be a more realistic prospect than you think. As Motherboard reports, researchers at the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have discovered that a new magnetic ...

Massachusetts-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems, the world’s largest private fusion company, has achieved a key milestone in its journey to producing energy for the grid. Earlier this week, the ...

How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding problems in astrophysics. Now, researchers have proposed a novel solution: a giant "dust battery" operating ...

Click to viewWhile many hurdles are keeping us stuck here on Earth, our solar system’s deadly radiation is chief among them. But scientists now think that a thumb-sized magnet could produce a force ...