U.S. researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are looking for financial commercial partners for their new Plasma Liner ...

New footage from the British fusion firm Tokamak Energy shows unbelievably hot plasma imprisoned in a magnetic field.

MAST Upgrade team claims first suppression of pesky edge instabilities in a spherical tokamak Scientists at the UK Atomic ...

The footage clearly shows the process of fueling and controlling the plasma. A bright pink glow is visible from the injection ...

By stabilizing plasma in a world-first experiment, scientists may have overcome one of the key obstacles to limitless fusion ...

For the first time, scientists have built a fusion experiment using permanent magnets, a technique that could show a simple way to build future devices for less cost and allow researchers to test new ...

PASADENA, Calif.–Applied physicists at the California Institute of Technology have devised a plasma experiment that shows how huge long, thin jets of material shoot out from exotic astrophysical ...

A team of Chinese and American scientists has learned how to maintain high fusion performance under steady conditions by exploiting a characteristic of the plasma itself: the plasma self-generates ...

The study of material plasma exposure experiments and plasma‐material interactions is critical for advancing fusion energy research and the development of next‐generation plasma facing components.

The footage offers an unprecedentedly colorful look at the extreme physics at play—revealing valuable information for ...

Researchers held a high-quality plasma steady for 43 seconds using frozen hydrogen, setting new fusion record.

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