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Particle accelerators such as those at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva are typically highly ...

For the first time, a research team has demonstrated, in a metal-wall environment, a plasma regime that simultaneously ...

Ultrafast lasers tracked plasma formation and ionization in copper with picosecond precision. Results show rapid ion growth ...

At the Columbia Plasma Physics Lab, researchers are tackling one of the most pressing challenges in creating clean energy: making nuclear fusion a viable power source. Unlike nuclear fission—the type ...

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), roughly 4 miles out from campus, is a national lab run by the Department of Energy and yet remains a relatively elusive branch of Princeton’s research ...

Inside a concrete-and-steel facility in Devens, Massachusetts, a crane lowered a 20-ton high-temperature superconducting ...

Plasma physics examines the behaviour of ionised gases in which collective electromagnetic effects dominate. In magnetic‐confinement fusion, hot plasmas of deuterium–tritium fuel are held in toroidal ...