This rigorous explanation of plasmas is relevant to diverse plasma applications such as controlled fusion, astrophysical plasmas, solar physics, magnetospheric plasmas, and plasma thrusters. More ...

Researchers are developing new ideas about the best ways to make lab-grown diamonds while minimizing other forms of carbon, ...

Researchers are making exciting progress in developing lab-grown diamonds specifically for advanced electronics, quantum ...

But there are still huge technological challenges to overcome before ... Heating a plasma for fusion research requires megawatts of power. One approach that research tokamaks use to achieve the ...

The NSTX-U is the primary nuclear fusion reactor experiment which is ongoing at the US Department of Energy's PPPL.

Tungsten, the preferred material for tokamak fusion reactors, poses challenges due to sputtering that cools plasma, making ...

It is difficult to disentangle Russian and Chinese scientists from international science cooperation. That is a good thing ...

for which he was awarded the European Plasma Physics PhD Award. In 2019, he and Jason Parisi published the popular science book, The Future of Fusion Energy. Currently, Justin is the principal ...

New research has unveiled a previously unacknowledged effect of Einstein’s relativity theory similar to time dialtion and ...

Developed in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics specifically for the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, ...

A University of Maryland astrophysicist was named Tuesday to the 2024 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering, ...

To expand the potential use of diamond in semiconductor and quantum technologies, researchers are developing improved processes for growing the material at lower temperatures that won't damage the ...