Can using plasma to cut your tube and pipe be a better option for your operation than a saw or laser? Quite possibly, but ...

Professor Dame Carole Jordan, who has died aged 84, was an astrophysicist recognised internationally as an authority on the ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is developing a new project which aims to use AI to expedite fusion energy research. Shantenu Jha, the head of PPPL’s Computational ...

Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing atoms. When plasma particles escape the core of the ...

Dive into rotational dynamics with **“Physics Tutorial: Moment Of Inertia Of A Ring About An Axis.”** This video breaks down the concept of moment of inertia for a ring, explaining how mass ...

The big picture: In deep-space travel, the race is no longer about who has the biggest rocket – it's about who can build the smartest plasma engine. As the competition to reach Mars intensifies, ...

Particle accelerators, like the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, allow scientists to study the most fundamental particles, but they operate on a massive scale. The tunnel that houses ...

Nuclear fusion is deemed the next big thing in the field of energy harvesting for humanity, but creating a reactor that can achieve continuous electricity generation has proved to be a massive ...

Nuno Loureiro was a physicist who served as the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. He also held faculty appointments in MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and ...

The interiors of fusion reactors can get seriously chaotic. But for obvious reasons—like extreme temperatures and pressures—researchers aren’t typically able to peek directly inside a reactor. Some ...