Bungee jumping has been around for ages. The land divers of Vanuatu tied vines around their ankles. The first modern-style jump with elastic cords was undertaken in Bristol, England, in 1979 by the ...

The plasma magnet sail engine is little more than 2 pairs of charged rotating coils and is therefore extremely simple and inexpensive. A fully powered plasma magnet sail using a small nuclear power ...

There’s a long-circulating meme on the internet that is basically a question: Would a magnet-propelled vehicle work? (Here’s a version of it posted on Reddit.) It’s a very simple drawing of a pickup ...

Linear motors are becoming increasingly practical for general motion. Many are used for long strokes of a few feet or more. One new design, however, where the magnets move relative to a stationary ...

As NACFE has so well coined the phrase, we are in the "messy middle", a time when there are many solutions to decarbonize trucking. They start with improving fuel economy of diesel-powered vehicles, ...

Recently, the research group led by Dr. WANG Junfeng at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, revealed significant ...