The user magnet, installed in the Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility in Beijing's Huairou district, is the world's only superconducting magnet capable of providing ultra-strong magnetic fields ...

All day long, James Kane tosses a giant magnet into New York’s murkiest waters. There’s got to be money in there somewhere. James Kane casts his magnet into a lake in Crotona Park in the Bronx.Credit.

Pandemic boredom led people to seek thrills by tossing powerful magnets into lakes and rivers. They found buckets of scrap metal, and the occasional grenade. By Amanda Holpuch Guns, shopping carts and ...

Magnet fisher James Kane cradles a shiny, four-pound magnetic disk: a stainless-steel shell housing an alloy of iron, neodymium and boron. He hucks it into a lake in a public park in New York City, ...

A World War I-era warhead and a dead blacktip shark attached to a metal hook are just some of the things magnet fishers have retrieved around the U.S. since the hobby spiked in popularity following ...

There’s way more to catch from America’s waters than fish. Just ask the growing population of magnet fishing experts who haul everything from road signs to kitchen knives to guns out of the rivers and ...

In 2015, a group of physicists at MIT did some calculations to rethink how we’re approaching the problem of fusion power. High-temperature, nonmetallic superconductors were finally commercially ...

It was always a treat when my mother rented movies. I never expected one of them to change my life. In the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones, played by ...

If you grew up around some of the earlier models of televisions and computers, you may have received at least one sternly-worded warning to never place a magnet near them. These warnings still persist ...