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

SCIENCE FOR EVERYONE: State Sen. Andrew Zwicker, who is also a physicist and hosts the “Science on Saturday” series at ...

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.

China’s latest fusion experiment did more than nudge a world record, it crossed a line many physicists quietly suspected ...

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has pushed fusion research into a new regime by holding a high density ...

A breakthrough experiment revealed how plasma turbulence spreads heat inside fusion reactors, solving a decades-old problem ...

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 ...

Type One Energy, a University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear fusion spinoff company, is partnering with the Tennessee Valley ...

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 ...

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 ...