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 ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has discovered that Jupiter uses a surprisingly complex system of powerful plasma waves and multiple ...

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 ...

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 ...

Juno observations reveal that Jupiter counters the solar wind with stronger multi-frequency plasma waves and shocklets that ...

Chinese scientists have unveiled a superconducting linear plasma device designed to test materials for nuclear fusion reactors. The Superconducting Plasma Wall Interaction Linear Device (SWORD) boasts ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has uncovered remarkable new details about how Jupiter withstands the constant stream of high-energy particles flowing from the ...

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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 ...

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 ...