Powerful Lasers Reveal How Matter Becomes Plasma in Trillionths of a Second
In the experiment, the XFEL photon energy was carefully tuned to match a specific electronic transition in highly…
Scientists Figure Out How to Use Ultrasound to Bend Electricity Around Solid Objects
Credit: Josu Irisarri. When high-voltage electricity breaks out in open air, it rips through the atmosphere, forming chaotic,…
Astronomer Deciphers Crab Pulsar’s Zebra Stripes
New research from the University of Kansas untangles a decades-old astrophysical puzzle, showing how competing forces — gravity’s…
Half-ton magnet aces world-first 1.8 million°F fusion plasma confinement
A 0.5-tonne superconducting magnet recently hovered silently inside a 5-meter-wide vacuum chamber, which marked a major milestone for…
US team’s fusion plasma heat control method to protect tokamak walls
Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have identified a new method to tame the destructive energy bursts…
Chandrayaan-3 just nailed the most accurate Lunar plasma readings yet
India’s Chandrayaan‑3 mission has revealed that the Moon’s south pole is much more electrically active than scientists expected.…
How W7-X achieves steady plasma
The Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) is the largest and most advanced stellarator in the world, and on its tenth…
World’s largest fusion device solves key plasma heat loss challenge
For decades, physicists have been puzzled by a phenomenon inside fusion reactors that defies conventional theory: heat escaping…
Water-based plasma forges novel alloy to turn CO₂ into useful chemicals
A new water-based plasma technique is opening fresh possibilities for carbon conversion. Chinese researchers have created stable high-entropy…
Japan fusion breakthrough may triple plasma measurement precision
Researchers from the National Institute of Fusion Science in Japan, developing the Large Helical Device (LHD) for nuclear…
Scientists are finally discovering why many satellites frequently fail
An image showing a Russian satellite orbiting the Earth. (Image source: WikiImages – Pixabay) Scientists have just solved…
Voyager 2’s journey into interstellar space raises more questions than answers!
Voyager 2 continues to travel at over 55,000 kilometres per hour, moving deeper into interstellar space. Its power…