Installation of an Ion-X thruster for testing in a vacuum chamber. Credit: Cyril Fresillon C2N Ion-X CNRS Images SAN FRANCISCO – French propulsion startup Ion-X raised 13 million euros ($13.67 million ...

Unlike traditional lithium-ion batteries, which depend on scarce metals like lithium and cobalt, sodium-ion batteries use sodium, an element that’s way easier to source. That means less destructive ...

What is Focused Ion Beam Milling? Focused ion beam (FIB) milling is a nanofabrication technique that uses a focused beam of ions to precisely mill, etch, or deposit materials at the nanoscale. It ...

Quantum computing has long been dominated by proprietary machines locked behind corporate and national lab firewalls, but a different model is starting to take shape. A growing coalition of ...

The High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF), one of China's major scientific and technological infrastructure projects, successfully completed commissioning with beam on October 28, ...

Click to open image viewer. Ion source "cones" for cyclotron (back row, from left: -.11, -.35, -.10; middle row, from left: -.03, -.07, -.16.1; front row, from left ...