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Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s biggest magnet facility has met the grand challenge of producing magnetic fields in excess of 100 tesla while conducting six different experiments. The 100-tesla level is roughly equivalent to two million times Earth’s magnetic field.

World Record Shattered: Magnetic Fields Exceed 100 Tesla

You, of course, know the Microsoft story. Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed the company to sell software applications. When IBM decided to build a PC, Microsoft won the contract to supply an operating system that it didn’t own at the time. Imitation PC makers like Compaq — and worldwide fame — followed.

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