At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

A tokamak is a toroidal device that employs magnetic confinement to achieve controlled nuclear fusion. It resembles a helical "magnetic racetrack," effectively confining high-temperature plasma to ...

China’s EAST reactor just broke a fundamental fusion limit—bringing the dream of ignition a big step closer. shutterstock.

Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los ...

China's artificial sun breaks density limit that caused fusion experiments to fail, moving closer to clean energy.

Quantum field theories are powerful tools for particle physics and condensed matter physics but are rarely used in plasma physics. However, in warm-dense regimes, where matter is partially ionized and ...

Modern scientific equipment can be staggeringly expensive. Take, for example, an instrument like a NanoSIMS probe, a instrument that lets scientists pick materials apart a few atoms at a time. There's ...

Since 2003, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) has had to answer to two entities. In financial terms, it was under the control of the Helmholtz Association and in legal terms under the ...

A plasma is what you get if you heat matter until it breaks apart into a gas of charged particles. It is, perhaps, the ultimate many-body system, as long-range interactions make possible countless ...

Under control: plasma inside the Variable-Configuration Tokamak at EPFL. (Courtesy: Curdin Wüthrich/SPC/EPFL) A collaboration of physicists and computer scientists has shown that artificial ...