CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will soon be smashing oxygen and neon atoms into other atoms of their own kind as part of its ATLAS experiment. The collisions will happen under enough heat and pressure ...

At the same time, a current of cold electrons travels toward the heated plasma from the opposite direction. When the two meet, the plasma develops filament-shaped instabilities that SLAC’s facilities ...

Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in ...

Another report on the same microwave‑sized space factory notes that it has already generated plasma and could create “4,000x” purer chips, framing the event as the moment when what once seemed like ...

Scientists are using non-thermal plasma to produce fertiliser and long-chain hydrocarbons. Mason Wakley talks to the chemists ...