Flux

Welcome to Flux, a magazine for non-scientists about the people, ideas and tools at the Mag Lab. Use the blue links to read content online or download entire issues.

Latest Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2 (August 2010)

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• Editors' note: Three labs, one research mission
• Extreme Makeover: magnet edition
• Draw a Scientist
• Partners in pulse: The Magnet Lab at Los Alamos
• New 36-tesla wonder is the world's strongest resistive mgnet
• From Kansas to MIT: Long's long road to a career in chemistry
• Pregnancy to pacemakers: Safety around high magnetic fields
• How Bitter plates measure up

Volume 3, Issue 1 (December 2009)

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• Understanding the scientific method
• The life of an experiment
• Mag Lab MacGyvers
• Magnet science? It's elementary
• Scientist Spotlight:Greg Boebinger
• What Is This?: Cable-in-conduit winding spool
• Science Starts Here: Carolyn Kim
• Magnet Milestones: Maglev trains

Volume 2, Issue 2 (September 2009)

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• Small steps, big results: greening the Magnet Lab
• Eureka Moments: How four people discovered science
• Scientist Spotlight: EMR Director Stephen Hill
• Science Starts Here: Students live, learn together
• What Is This: Dewars
• Magnet Milestones: The discovery of electromagnetism

Volume 2, Issue 1 (November 2008)

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• David Larbalestier: When curiosity makes a career
• Science to the max: Researchers go to extremes to learn about materials
• Little epplorers: Small mammals in high magnetic fields
• Science Starts Here: Kitchen takes an unconventional path to research
• What Is This: The bus room is one powerful station
• Field Work: Research in big magnets is hot and getting hotter

Volume 1, Issue 2 (May 2008)

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• Materials with superpowers
• Helium recovery bags
• Magnet Milestones: Francis Bitter
• A novel use for MRI
• Science Starts Here – Ken Purcell

Volume 1, Issue 1 (December 2007)

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• Magnet Lab mentors use science to build relationships
• Magnet probes
• America’s forgotten innovator, Nikola Tesla
• Scientist Spotlight: Arneil Reyes
• Science Starts Her: Annie Bist