Just as in-flight turbulence—irregular disruptions in the airflow—results in a bumpy plane ride, plasma turbulence transports ...

Now, a team at Japan’s National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) has cracked the code, discovering that plasma turbulence behaves less like a slow-moving fluid and more like an American football ...

Plasma is usually introduced as the stuff of stars and fusion reactors, a searing soup of charged particles that has little ...

Producing fusion energy requires heating plasma to more than one hundred million degrees and confining it stably with strong ...

In the blink of an eye, the unruly, superheated plasma that drives a fusion reaction can lose its stability and escape the strong magnetic fields confining it within the donut-shaped fusion reactor.

Interferometry has become an indispensable diagnostic tool in plasma physics, enabling the precise measurement of electron densities and detailed imaging of plasma behaviour. By utilising the ...