Schematic of fast ions (black spirals) interacting with plasma waves (color) in a fusion experiment. Credit: Steve Allen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and adapted by…
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Recent research at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility has led to groundbreaking observations of energetic ions in fusion plasmas, crucial for maintaining the state of…
Universities are key to the development of high-tech industries, especially the emerging fusion energy sector. However, there’s a notable gap in fusion-focused academic resources. Experts…
Osaka University researchers have simulated photon-photon collisions with lasers, potentially paving the way for generating matter from light in labs. This quantum physics advancement holds…
Caltech Professor Paul Bellan’s two-decade research on plasma jets reveals unexpected behaviors in ‘cold’ plasmas. Initially theorizing a collision-avoidance mechanism for electron acceleration, Bellan later…
Structure of Heliotron J device. Credit: KyotoU/Heliotron J group Plasma physicists from Ukraine, Germany and Japan collaborate to spark fusion power. Despite being forced to…
Research findings led by Paul Cassak, WVU professor and associate director of the WVU Center for KINETIC Plasma Physics, have broken new ground on how…
Lightning is a natural phenomenon that occurs during thunderstorms when the discharge of electricity in the atmosphere causes a bright flash of light. It is…
Artist impression (not to scale) idealizing how the solar wind shapes the magnetospheres of Venus (top), Earth (middle) and Mars (bottom). Credit: ESA First experimental…
Visualization of filamentary seed magnetic fields emerging from large-scale motions of unmagnetized plasma in a first-principles numerical simulation. Credit: Rendering courtesy of the researchers By…
Inside Japan’s Large Helical Device (LHD) stellarator, built to test plasma fusion confinement. Credit: Justin Ruckman New insights into understanding turbulence in fusion plasmas. In…
Illustration of cloud-like ionized plasma in the ITER fusion reactor tokamak. Credit: ITER Physicists at EPFL, within a large European collaboration, have revised one of…
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections on the sun are caused by “magnetic reconnection”—when magnetic field lines of opposite directions merge, rejoin, and snap apart,…
According to recent simulations and analysis, the flagship fusion facility of the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPLThe U.S. Department…
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have created an efficient computer algorithm to model the crazy-quilt movement of free electrons…
Experimental platform combines Large Plasma Device with lasers, magnetic dipoles; reveals insights about Earth’s shield against solar wind. A magnetosphere forms around any magnetized object,…
Research conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) describes a validation exercise for simple models used to understand hot-spot conditions reached in an implosion, which…
Artist’s animation of burning plasma inside a fusion reactor. Nature paper chronicles how researchers achieved burning plasmaPlasma is one of the four fundamental states of…
Plasma inside the TCV tokamak. Credit: Curdin Wüthrich /SPC/EPFL Scientists at EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center and DeepMind have jointly developed a new method for controlling…
Scientists have achieved a remarkable breakthrough in the conceptual design of twisty stellarators, experimental magnetic facilities that could reproduce on Earth the fusion energy that…