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 ...

The Department of Energy announced $134 million in new funding to accelerate the development of fusion technologies, underscoring the administration’s push to keep the United States at the ...

Scientists testing China’s trillion-dollar ‘artificial sun’ have underlined its potential to advance nuclear fusion, ...

Scientists pursuing magnetically-confined nuclear fusion as a clean energy source grapple with the "core-edge challenge," the need to integrate the core of the reactor, where plasma must be 10 times ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is providing $134 million in funding for two programs designed to secure U.S. leadership ...

The need for an intense source of coherent, millimetre-wavelength radiation to heat a fusion plasma and control its instabilities represents a significant challenge in the development of the ITER ...

A recent study published in National Science Review analyzes a new type of solar energetic particle event with faster ...

Shaped by input from more than 1,000 members of its community, the plan reflects shared vision and values, organized around ...

Moiré superlattices are periodic patterns formed when two or more thin semiconducting layers are stacked with a small twist angle or lattice mismatch. When 2D materials form these patterns, their ...

ORNL is the lead partner on three research collaborations with private fusion companies in the 2025 cohort of the Innovation ...

For decades, physicists have known that flare plasma gets incredibly hot, but exactly how different particles heat up has ...

The U.S. DOE has announced $134 million in funding to accelerate the development of fusion energy technologies ...