With more than a decade of productive partnership in advancing high-power laser technology, Lawrence Livermore National ...

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream ...

The multimillion-dollar experiment that was years in the making comes as the federal government makes broad cuts to science ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford have unveiled a pioneering method for capturing the full structure of ultra-intense ...

Scientists can now snap ultra-powerful laser pulses in one shot. RAVEN reveals distortions instantly, unlocking breakthroughs ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking technique called RAVEN that can capture the full complexity of an ultra-intense ...

At a June 12 ribbon-cutting event, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory unveiled a new, one-of-a-kind device that represents the next generation of research into fundamental plasma physics.

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

The bundle of magnets at the heart of the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's (PPPL) National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U) is the star of the show.

Was it a cosmic jellyfish, a fleeting light trick, or something more outlandish? When NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took a ...

In the frozen outskirts of the solar system, a reddish dwarf planet orbits in silence. Known as Sedna, it is so distant that ...

Reversed field pinch (RFP) plasma physics is a distinctive branch of magnetic confinement research that explores self-organised plasma equilibria in which the toroidal magnetic field reverses in ...