The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

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

A newborn star 15,000 light-years from Earth is fascinating astronomers with its dual blasts of superheated plasma jets. The ...

A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden ...

A team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed ways to rapidly evaluate new thermal protection materials ...

Beijing is pouring vast resources into fusion research, while the U.S. wants private industry to lead the way. The winner ...

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 ...

Researchers discovered heat in fusion reactors doesn't diffuse slowly—it executes an American football-style "long pass." ...

Plasma has long been treated as an exotic laboratory curiosity, yet a new world-first result is forcing scientists to look at ...

When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent atoms, resulting in a plasma—the oft-forgotten fourth ...

For all the problems AI is causing society, one of its greatest benefits lies in the world of science. A new study focused on the chaotic dynamics of dusty plasmas found that, when trained properly, ...