As part of a series of presentations this month, I heard from Bob Mumgaard, CEO and Co-founder at Commonwealth Fusion Systems ...
Developed by a joint research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the ...
Yevgeny Raitses and Elena Belova were named PPPL’s 2024 Distinguished Research Fellows for their exceptional contributions to ...
In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again by 2020 -- only to dramatically increase its output again in 2023. At that ...
Who could imagine a world without plasma TV screens? Or a blood test without measurements of key electrolytes, sodium, and potassium? Both technologies rely on the fields of radiometry and flame ...
Chinese scientists have unveiled a superconducting linear plasma device designed to test materials for nuclear fusion ...
A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that ...
According to Zhou, SWORD's successful development is poised to support research on China's next-generation experimental ...
Chang, Seung-Hoe Ku and Robert Hager are winners of the 2024 Kaul Foundation Prize for pioneering simulations that suggest ...
Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how collisionless shock waves—found throughout the universe—are able to ...
Researchers are closing in on the potential of nuclear fusion, the process that powers the stars, as a clean and ...
Even once researchers can reliably get more power out of a fusion reaction than they put in, they'll still need to overcome engineering challenges to scale up fusion energy.