An electromagnetic coil gun is a type of weapon that uses an electromagnetic launch coil or a series of launch coils to accelerate a ferromagnetic projectile. The goal of this article is to help you ...

Speaking at the Idea Festival on Saturday, theoretical physicist and string field theory co-founder Michio Kaku described building a rudimentary atom smasher in his parents' garage. Powerful enough to ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—In order for an animal tranquilizer gun to work, it has to fire darts at a rather particular speed. Too slow, and the dart bounces off the animal without injecting the sedative. Too ...

Magnetic fields with quasi-symmetry are known to provide good confinement of charged particles and plasmas, but the extent to which quasi-symmetry can be achieved in practice has remained an open ...