A barge carrying a giant electromagnet that could change the study of particle physics was forced by predictions of bad weather to seek shelter in Hampton Roads on Thursday. The magnet, 50 feet in ...

Today when we send information -- speech, words, numbers, or pictures -- to someone far away we can use the radio, telephone, television, fax machine, or a computer network. However, the need for ...

The 50-foot-wide electromagnet for the Muon g-2 experiment has completed its five-week journey from New York to Illinois. For the last three nights, a big rig has traveled slowly down the roads of ...

Symmetry writer Andre Salles tells you everything you always wanted to know about moving a gigantic electromagnet but were afraid to ask. “Trust me, you won’t be able to miss it." Those words were ...

(AP) — New York to Chicago, in five weeks? Scientists on Long Island are preparing to move a 50-foot-wide electromagnet 3,200 miles over land and sea to its new home at the U.S. Department of Energy's ...

For the past month, a 50-foot-wide circular electromagnet has been on a fantastic journey between two U.S. Department of Energy national labs: Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and Fermi ...

A groundbreaking experiment has possibly rewritten the rules of the universe. It couldn't have happened without this 17-ton electromagnet. In 2013, Popular Mechanics contributor William Herkewitz ...