SNAPSHOT: Physicists Create Strongest Ever Controllable Magnetic Field

By Alison Mackey
Sep 26, 2018 10:30 PMMay 21, 2019 5:30 PM
megagauss generator system sparks fly
Sparks fly as four million amps of current feed a "megagauss" generator. That's hundreds of times more current than an average lightning bolt packs. (Credit: Shojiro Takeyama)

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