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Lab-Based Plasmas Shed Light on Stellar Mystery

Author(s): Susan CurtisUsing high-power lasers to drive highly magnetized plasmas, researchers have probed the stellar processes that control coronal mass ejections.[Physics 19, 12...

Watch Plasma Erupt in Full Color Inside a Fusion Reactor at 16,000 FPS

The glow of deuterium and lithium inside Tokamak Energy's ST40 fusion reactor. (Tokamak Energy/YouTube)

The roadmap for runaway electron-induced plasma facing component damage in tokamaks

Join the audience for a live webinar on 10 November 2026 sponsored by IOP Publishing's journal, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion The post The roadmap for runaway electron-induc...

Princeton AI Tames Fusion Plasma Hotter Than the Sun

Princeton’s PACMAN AI can control fusion plasma in milliseconds and predict dangerous instabilities before they start. In some fusion energy systems, particles can reach temperatur...

Structure in the unstructured: New phenomenon discovered in the solar wind

Turbulence is ubiquitous and occurs every day, such as when milk is stirred into coffee or in the stormy motions of the ocean and the atmosphere. Media in space and astrophysical s...

Liquid gallium experiment confirms key flow regime inside rapidly rotating stars and planets

Since we cannot look into the interiors of stars and planets, we rely on lab experiments to replicate the physical processes that occur there. Led by the University of California,...

Hot plasma may explain how rapidly feeding black holes launch powerful jets

Some supermassive black holes rapidly consume surrounding matter while simultaneously firing powerful streams of plasma into space at nearly the speed of light. However, this creat...

To Lase or Not to Lase: The Question of Neutrino Superradiance

Author(s): Ana Maria Rey, James K. Thompson, and Haoqing ZhangTwo studies find that fundamental quantum constraints rule out a previously proposed neutrino-laser scheme.[Physics 19...

In a Huge First, Physicists May Have Found a Shortcut to Fusion Energy

An artist's rendition of a tokamak fusion system. (Kyle Palmer/PPPL Communications Department)

Surprising result seen in primordial matter inside atom smasher

Physicists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider on Long Island have seen hints of a phase transition from the early universe

82.6 Ghz Gyrotron Commissioned And Integrated With SST-1 TOKAMAK Fusion Reactor At Institute For Plasma Research, Gujara...

The Gyrotron commissioned and integrated (Extreme left pic) at IPRThe Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) in Gujarat has successfully commissioned and integrated an advanced 82.6 G...

Scientists Discover a Surprising Shortcut to Nuclear Fusion

Scientists may have found a surprising shortcut to nuclear fusion that could dramatically cut the energy needed to ignite the power of the Sun. Scientists at the U.S. Department of...

Open-source solver brings quantum-accurate physics to femtosecond laser ablation of metals

A new open-source OpenFOAM solver called TTMFoam simulates femtosecond laser ablation of metals using quantum-accurate, temperature-dependent material properties and reproduces exp...

New krypton-88 data narrow a key gap in stellar strontium models

An international research team has reported the first experimental investigation of a nuclear physics reaction essential for understanding how the element strontium is produced in...

Curtain-like plasma structures explain solar jets' apparent spinning in simulations

An international team of scientists from the University of Sheffield and the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, led by a postdoctoral research fellow from the University of Newcastl...

Proton–oxygen collisions put cosmic-ray models to the test

CERN’s ATLAS experiment probes the extreme universe The post Proton–oxygen collisions put cosmic-ray models to the test appeared first on Physics World.

A new design for a plasma engine fuels on only thin air

Choosing an orbit for a satellite always comes with trade-offs. Very low Earth orbit (VLEO), between 100–450 km (62–280 miles), has distinct advantages. Remote-sensing cameras can...

AI predicts fusion plasma instability 200 ms early, stops it in time

Simulating Particle Creation with Cold Atoms

Author(s): Michael SchirberResearchers observe atoms trapped in an optical lattice mimicking particles created in a strong electric field.[Physics 19, s131] Published Thu Oct 01, 2...

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New superconducting chip aims to help tame fusion plasma

Researchers fed fusion data to a new chip to see whether it could spot signs that superhot plasma is about to go haywire

Doubts cast on ‘superradiant neutrino laser’ proposal

Debate spans atomic and particle physics The post Doubts cast on ‘superradiant neutrino laser’ proposal appeared first on Physics World.

Physicists zoom into the birth of cosmic rainstorms with new CERN study

Every second, particles zip through your body at nearly the speed of light. They rain down from a storm high in the sky, where cosmic rays, a powerful type of interstellar matter,...

Scientists explain how a 300 TeV photon could reach Earth

A mysterious signal from a powerful gamma-ray burst may reveal how exotic particles and altered physics could let extreme radiation cross the universe The post Scientists explain h...