Plasma, the electrically charged state of matter that lights up stars and neon signs, has just revealed a subtle effect that ...

A team of scientists led by University of Virginia professor Patrick Hopkins is developing a plasma "freeze ray" that will be less interesting to super villains than to engineers looking for ways to ...

They were surprised to find that, inside their cryogenic plasma chamber, the tiny grains grew into delicate, snowflake-like ...

PASADENA, Calif.–Applied physicists at the California Institute of Technology have devised a plasma experiment that shows how huge long, thin jets of material shoot out from exotic astrophysical ...

The U.S. Air Force recently awarded a three-year/$750,000 research grant to the University of Virginia’s (UVA) ExSiTE Lab (Experiments and Simulations in Thermal Engineering) to evaluate the prospect ...

When the plasma physics community gathers for its biggest annual event, the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) shows up in force. This year's ...

A team of Chinese and American scientists has learned how to maintain high fusion performance under steady conditions by exploiting a characteristic of the plasma itself: the plasma self-generates ...

Just as in-flight turbulence—irregular disruptions in the airflow—results in a bumpy plane ride, plasma turbulence transports ...

Experiment spit out 10 quadrillion watts of power in a split second. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The secret behind a ...

Producing fusion energy requires heating plasma to more than one hundred million degrees and confining it stably with strong ...

Korea institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) said on the 27th that it has begun its 2025 experiment with the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) device, aiming to secure plasma operation ...