After four centuries of advances, astronomers now capture the Sun’s swirling, dynamic features in stunning detail.

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...

Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los ...

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is a nuclear-fusion research reactor in Hefei. Researchers hope ...

Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising charged particles. Plasmas are usually created by heating a gas until the electrons become detached from their parent atom or molecule. This ...

China’s EAST reactor just broke a fundamental fusion limit—bringing the dream of ignition a big step closer. shutterstock.

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has just shattered a longstanding limit in nuclear plasma density.

Three researchers from the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have been awarded the 2025 Kaul Foundation Prize for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research and ...

The shooting death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at his home near Boston is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said Tuesday. Nuno Loureiro, 47, from Portugal, was ...

A medical provider holds a bag of plasma. Reporter Catherine Rolfes was between jobs and starting to think about how to make some extra cash to put toward her bills when her sibling suggested they ...

SCIENCE FOR EVERYONE: State Sen. Andrew Zwicker, who is also a physicist and hosts the “Science on Saturday” series at ...