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

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

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

“We don’t have anything like that,” he told CNN. “The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has been upgrading its tokamak for ...

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

This rigorous explanation of plasmas is relevant to diverse plasma applications such as controlled fusion, astrophysical plasmas, solar physics, magnetospheric plasmas, and plasma thrusters. More ...

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

By using protons to probe how a magnetic field responds to an expanding plasma, experimenters have replicated the particle ...

Inside the next generation of fusion vessels known as spherical tokamaks, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) envisioned a hot region with ...

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Guy Matthews says that the focus on public relations is masking the challenges of commercializing nuclear fusion ...