Physicists Have Calculated a Whole New Way to Generate Super-Strong Magnetic Fields
FIONA MACDONALD11 AUG 2016

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Researchers have proposed a new way to use lasers to generate magnetic fields that are at least one order of magnitude stronger than anything we can currently produce on Earth.

In nature, such super-strong fields only exist in space, and they could be they key to harnessing the clean power of nuclear fusion and modelling astrophysical processes in the lab.

It's exciting stuff, but so far, physicists have only used theoretical calculations to show that the technique could work, and it hasn't been experimentally verified as yet for a good reason - we currently don't have lasers strong enough to test it out.

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