PPPL physicists have reformulated the classic Lawson criterion to map the least energy-intensive route to fusion ignition, ...

For more than 70 years, fusion energy researchers have used a particular equation to judge whether a plasma would stay hot and dense enough—for long enough—to reach a point where it could sustain ...

Research conducted at the Etowah Indian Mounds has revealed cacao residue in 11th-century pottery, illustrating that the Mississippian culture actively consumed cacao as part of their lifestyle. This ...

Choongseok Chang won the Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics, and Seong-Moo Yang was awarded the Young ...

American Fusion has detailed the theoretical physics behind its Texatron Fusion Engine, outlining how pulsed magnetic compression and a rifled chamber could potentially create and confine plasma while ...

Plasma pinches: From pursuits of nuclear fusion to an attractive point source of accelerated protons for proton radiography. Protons accelerated in a radial direction were discovered and used for the ...

Plasma physics is the research area devoted to the theoretical, computational, and experimental study of ionized gases in which collective electromagnetic interactions dominate particle dynamics. It ...

Magnetic confinement fusion is based on the fact that ions and electrons cannot easily travel across a magnetic field. Therefore, hot plasma can be confined by strong magnetic fields. This approach is ...

Two significant honors for plasma physics research have been awarded to scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) ...