China says US tried to buy superconductor magnet that ‘outperforms American ones by 40%’

A US laboratory that once dominated the field of superconducting magnets is now hoping to buy Chinese technology used in a leading particle accelerator, official Chinese media reported on Tuesday. The US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory once “monopolised” this type of specialised technology, according to Science and Technology Daily. But in May last year it contacted the Chinese Institute of High Energy Physics “hoping to purchase the Chinese-made combined superconducting...