When the plasma physics community gathers for its biggest annual event, the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) shows up in force. This year's ...

Pulsars are some of the most reliable metronomes in the universe, and scientists are now using their flickering radio beams to keep time across the galaxy and sharpen the search for intelligent life.

Just as in-flight turbulence—irregular disruptions in the airflow—results in a bumpy plane ride, plasma turbulence transports ...

Producing fusion energy requires heating plasma to more than one hundred million degrees and confining it stably with strong ...

A team of scientists from UK Atomic Energy Authority, the Johannes Kepler University Linz, and Emmi AI, have developed an ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference ...

Some fusion machines chase brute-force power. Wendelstein 7-X chose elegance—3D magnetic geometry sculpted to tame plasma for ...

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. This ...

When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent atoms, resulting in a plasma—the oft-forgotten fourth ...

Plasma, the electrically charged state of matter that lights up stars and neon signs, has just revealed a subtle effect that ...

The development of laser–plasma accelerators began in the early 1980s, inspired by the pioneering work of Tajima and Dawson 1. Key to their operation is the fact that unlike the superconducting ...