The US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has developed a new simulation method that can ...

Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) is the world's largest stellarator-type fusion reactor. The experimental facility is operated at the ...

Plasma—the electrically charged fourth state of matter—is at the heart of many important industrial processes, including ...

“The calculations were made possible thanks to detailed discussions with scientists working outside of our speciality of physics, namely plasma physicists,” he tells Physics World. “Throughout this ...

From assembly to first plasma in just two years is remarkably fast, but Song Yuntao—the project’s chief engineer from the ...

The company announced the first formal design review of Infinity Two, based on the world’s only implementable physics basis ...

The extreme physics going on near them hurls material ... These relativistic jets, as they’re called, are thought to contain a plasma made of electrons and their antimatter equivalent, positrons.

The most powerful laser in the U.S. just fired up to full strength for its first official experiment—and it’s an absolute ...

It also plays a major role in plasma physics, especially as it pertains to nuclear fusion. In the case of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) the rapidly laser-heated pellet of deuterium-tritium ...