In a few picoseconds (trillionths of a second), a small, thin piece of copper momentarily becomes dense plasma, specifically ...

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Greg Hammett and Bill Dorland have been awarded the 2024 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for their pioneering ...

An experiment here on Earth has just replicated one of the most extreme astrophysical processes in miniature. Physicists at ...

Greg Hammett (left) and Bill Dorland (right), winners of the 2024 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.

A team of researchers supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation has developed a new method of tracking the ultra-fast ...

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With the short duration of a high-powered laser pulse, copper shifts from a solid state to a plasma state in an instant ...

Coe College will use a $225,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, to advance its ...

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Laser-plasma accelerators could revolutionize scientific research by providing compact, efficient particle acceleration. They ...