Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant ...

Advances in inertial confinement fusion and innovative modeling have brought nuclear fusion closer to reality, offering ...

Researchers say recent advancements with inertial confinement fusion bring us one step closer to making accessible nuclear ...

Scientists have vastly reduced the temperatures and conditions needed to grow special diamonds for computing, making faster ...

Magnetic confinement fusion reactors aim to extract fusion energy by confining extremely hot plasma in strong magnetic fields. Scientists have used a pair of lasers and a supersonic sheet of gas ...

Quantum field theories are powerful tools for particle physics and condensed matter physics but are rarely used in plasma physics. However, in warm-dense regimes, where matter is partially ionized and ...

Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising charged particles. Plasmas are usually created by heating a gas until the electrons become detached from their parent atom or molecule.

Scientists have simulated a groundbreaking solution to boost fusion efficiency by eliminating "slow modes," unhelpful waves ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory to receive two prestigious ...

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory study suggests that a Faraday screen can help achieve the extreme temperatures needed for ...

The development marks a major step forward in laser-plasma acceleration, a promising method for making compact, high-energy particle accelerators that could have applications in particle physics ...