article_snippet: Magnetic reconnection, as the phenomenon is known, is .
article_snippet: On the sun, magnetic reconnection unleashes solar flares, .
article_snippet: New frontiers: Magnetic reconnection is what happens when magnetic fields come together, break apart, then come together again, releasing vast energy .
article_snippet: reconnection works," lead researcher Jim Burch, from the .
article_snippet: Efforts to harness nuclear fusion in laboratories have been . stymied by magnetic reconnection, which causes temperatures to .
highlights_snippet: The hard-to-study mechanism underlying space weather is known as magnetic reconnection .
  