Tiny grains of dust floating inside a glowing plasma should, according to decades of theory, push and pull on each other in ...

Five independent teams of researchers have reviewed the work and claims made by a group at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) who announced in December 2022 that they had achieved the first ...

The study of energetic particles and Alfvén eigenmodes is central to understanding plasma behaviour in both laboratory fusion devices and natural astrophysical settings. These high-energy particles, ...

At the Columbia Plasma Physics Lab, researchers are tackling one of the most pressing challenges in creating clean energy: making nuclear fusion a viable power source. Unlike nuclear fission—the type ...

Quantum field theories are powerful tools for particle physics and condensed matter physics but are rarely used in plasma physics. However, in warm-dense regimes, where matter is partially ionized and ...

Science courses emphasize the notion of a definitive answer when it comes to certain principles, but professors highlight ...

MIT postdoctoral associate Arunav Kumar discusses his work on magnetohydrodynamic stability, plasma control in tokamaks, and ...

The field of electromedicine is witnessing significant advances with the advent of impulse electrical technologies, including nanosecond pulsed bioelectrics ...

Fusion energy has the potential to be an effective clean energy source, as its reactions generate incredibly large amounts of energy. Fusion reactors aim to reproduce on Earth what happens in the core ...