The development of sustainable energy sources that can satisfy the world energy demand is one of the most challenging scientific problems. Nuclear fusion, the energy source of stars, is a clean and ...

Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in ...

A tiny amount of metal could be standing between us and practical nuclear fusion. And ironically, it’s the very metal ...

Scientists have made discoveries about light particles known as photons that could aid the quest for fusion energy. Both literally and figuratively, light pervades the world. It banishes darkness, ...

This topic is reviewed by Prof. Huishan Cai (University of Science and Technology of China) and Prof. Ding Li (Institute of Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences) mainly based on their last ten ...

Wendelstein 7-X begins OP2.4, a 12-week campaign focused on high-performance plasmas, fast ions and long pulses.

Scientists have used a pair of lasers and a supersonic sheet of gas to accelerate electrons to high energies in less than a foot. The development marks a major step forward in laser-plasma ...

Lijuan Ruan, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, is one of nine individuals receiving the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for exceptional contributions in ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unobserved magnetic reversal hidden within the solar wind, revealing that the ...

A new phenomenon discovered in plasma could have a major effect on the turbulence driving volatile and dangerous space ...

3D visualization of an ELM in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamk as simulated with the MEGA code. The tokamak volue is colored according to the ELM structure. TheELM interacts with the energetic particle whose ...