Plasma is usually introduced as the stuff of stars and fusion reactors, a searing soup of charged particles that has little ...

Plasma has long been treated as an exotic laboratory curiosity, yet a new world-first result is forcing scientists to look at ...

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

Beijing is pouring vast resources into fusion research, while the U.S. wants private industry to lead the way. The winner ...

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

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), roughly 4 miles out from campus, is a national lab run by the Department of Energy and yet remains a relatively elusive branch of Princeton’s research ...

Under control: plasma inside the Variable-Configuration Tokamak at EPFL. (Courtesy: Curdin Wüthrich/SPC/EPFL) A collaboration of physicists and computer scientists has shown that artificial ...

A plasma is what you get if you heat matter until it breaks apart into a gas of charged particles. It is, perhaps, the ultimate many-body system, as long-range interactions make possible countless ...

Elizabeth Paul, a groundbreaking physicist who is a 2015 alumna and a 2020 Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has won ...

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