Plasma has long been treated as an exotic laboratory curiosity, yet a new world-first result is forcing scientists to look at ...

Producing fusion energy requires heating plasma to more than one hundred million degrees and confining it stably with strong ...

Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most ...

Researchers discovered heat in fusion reactors doesn't diffuse slowly—it executes an American football-style "long pass." ...

When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent atoms, resulting in a plasma—the oft-forgotten fourth ...

Watch a nuclear engineer react to overloading plasma balls and xenon lamps while exploring the science of photonic induction.

The Earth's tail is known as the "magnetotail". Though it is generally a permanent feature, it is at the whims of the solar ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately ...

Once a testing ground for Soviet weapons, the country is using a unique facility to find materials that withstand plasma that ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb proposes that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS emits a 'heartbeat'-like pulse, suggesting it ...

HemoSift has passed benchtop testing with blood-like fluids at the nanofabrication and microfluidics facility at IIT Bombay ...