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

Researchers at the University of Virginia are using advanced simulations to study electron behavior in electric propulsion ...

UVA Engineering assistant professor Chen Cui is finding the hidden patterns in electric propulsion plasma beams that could ...

People are familiar with three states of matter of solid, liquid and gas. There is also a fourth state of matter, called ...

At the National Institute for Fusion Science, research on magnetically confined plasma is being conducted using the Large Helical Device (LHD). The major difference between plasma and other gases ...

Researchers in China have used a novel approach to explain the presence of supra-thermal ions in nuclear fusion reactions.

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 ...

A party trick performed using fruit in a microwave oven could lead to more sensitive detectors of microwave radiation, with applications in fields such as dark matter detection, quantum computing, and ...

Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have accelerated electrons to high energies in less than a foot using ...

Scientists have performed computer simulations confirming a technique that prevents the production of unhelpful electromagnetic waves, boosting the heat put into fusion plasma.