Microscopic turbulence in plasma can trigger macroscopic structural changes. In complex physical systems, such cross-scale ...

The team performed high-resolution particle simulations using the KAIROS supercomputer at the Korea Institute of Fusion ...

MUSE, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s new stellarator. Photo: Michael Livingston / PPPL Communications Department A team of physicists and engineers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory built ...

For decades, scientists have been working to develop reactors that can achieve fusion to meet the increasing need for clean and limitless energy. The success of such experiments depends on multiple ...

PASADENA, Calif.–Applied physicists at the California Institute of Technology have devised a plasma experiment that shows how huge long, thin jets of material shoot out from exotic astrophysical ...

To harness the forces that power the Sun to produce substantial clean energy on Earth, researchers heat fuel to such a high temperature that atoms melt into electrons and nuclei to form a hot, gaseous ...

Islands in the stream Artistic representation of resonant magnetic perturbations in a plasma. Palm tree is not to scale. (Courtesy: Kyle Palmer/PPPL Communications Department) By combining two ...

A research group led by Associate Professor Masahiro Kobayashi of the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) has discovered that in the Large Helical Device (LHD), when fluctuations are ...

New research describes striking similarity of laboratory research findings with observations of the four-satellite Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission that studies magnetic reconnection in space. As on ...

Helicon plasma propulsion represents a promising and multifaceted approach in the domain of electric space propulsion. At its core, the technology utilises helicon waves to generate high-density ...

A self-generated, or "bootstrap," current has significant implications for the cost-effectiveness of fusion power. A team of Chinese and American scientists has learned how to maintain high fusion ...

Re-creating conditions on the sun’s surface inside a laboratory plasma chamber, scientists find surprising insights into solar outbursts The sun is an alien place where matter in a state rarely ...