Imagine a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius. For 18 minutes, it was a reality on earth
Scientists in China set a world record by sustaining plasma temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius for nearly 18 ...
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China's 'artificial sun' shatters nuclear fusion record by generating steady loop of plasma for 1,000 seconds
A nuclear fusion reactor in China, dubbed the "artificial sun," has broken its own record to bring humanity one step closer ...
Why we'll still see big snowstorms as Earth warms
Designer of viral hat worn by Melania Trump at inauguration shares inspiration China's 'artificial sun' shatters nuclear ...
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China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run
China’s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has claimed a new world record for maintaining a steady-state high-confinement ...
China’s nuclear fusion scientists set record span for plasma 6 times hotter than the sun
Latest ‘artificial sun’ test shows researchers now capable of simulating operational environment of a future fusion power ...
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What Earth Would Look Like with 2,000m More Water
Enough talk about "historic sea levels" or "climate projections," today we're flooding the Earth with unrealistic amounts of ...
Exploring Earth's ionosphere for dark matter conversion signals
Dark matter, predicted to account for most of the universe's mass, remains highly elusive. Physicists have been searching for ...
Mars's rare disappearing solar wind event explained
Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...
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China’s ‘artificial sun’ sets nuclear fusion record, runs 1,006 seconds at 180 million°F
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) – also called ‘artificial sun’ - has achieved the milestone of 1,006 ...
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Recruiting summer trainees for 2025
The space physics group at Helsinki maintains the Vlasiator code, which produces one of the most advanced simulations of the Earth’s plasma environment. In this project, you will use the Vlasiator ...
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New study unveils breakthrough in understanding cosmic particle accelerators
Using real-time data from the MMS mission, which measures the interaction of Earth's magnetosphere with the solar wind, and the THEMIS/ARTEMIS mission, which studies the upstream plasma ...