Learn how to transform an ordinary light bulb into a homemade plasma ball using simple materials. This exciting DIY ...

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 massive, donut-shaped machine, which is also the largest and most powerful tokamak experiment, made headlines when it achieved 69 megajoules (MJ) of energy during a six-second pulse during its ...

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 ...

A team of U.S. scientists has made a surprising discovery that could help bring fusion energy, a long-hoped-for clean energy source, closer to reality. In a recent experiment at the University of ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) recently celebrated 20 years of ESA astronauts living and working on the International Space Station. Since the ESA arrived on the ISS 20 years ago, it has been running ...

The study of material plasma exposure experiments and plasma‐material interactions is critical for advancing fusion energy research and the development of next‐generation plasma facing components.

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Microscopic turbulence in plasma can trigger macroscopic structural changes. In complex physical systems, such cross-scale ...

Madison, scientists at startup Realta Fusion published two papers outlining the viability of the magnetic mirror design for ...

A stellarator is still a donut shape, but extended and twisted, with different pros and cons.

Imagine watching a favorite movie when suddenly the sound stops. The data representing the audio is missing. All that's left ...