A decade in the making, this upgraded detector will explore the properties of the quark-gluon plasma that formed a millionth ...

The key test passed by sPHENIX to prove it is ready to measure the properties of quark-gluon plasma is called a "standard ...

Temperatures of more than 10,000°C and a hail of charged particles from the fusion fuel (plasma): These are extreme ...

In June 2025, physicists met at Saariselkä, Finland, to discuss recent progress in the field of ultra-peripheral collisions.

Interesting Engineering reported on experiments inside a tokamak, a doughnut-shaped machine that contains plasma. Instead of ...

A groundbreaking particle detector in New York, known as sPHENIX, has successfully passed a crucial standard candle test, ...

Scientists pursuing magnetically-confined nuclear fusion as a clean energy source grapple with the "core-edge challenge," the ...

Fusion energy has long promised the world a clean, nearly limitless source of power. But despite the excitement, real-world ...

Caltech experiments uncovered a stable double helix state in plasma flux ropes. The same principles explain cosmic structures ...

Could a spaceship actually travel to Saturn during the time it takes to earn a master’s degree? Scientists at the Princeton ...

At the Columbia Plasma Physics Lab, researchers are tackling one of the most pressing challenges in creating clean energy: making nuclear fusion a viable power source.

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is marking significant results from the lab’s artificial intelligence machine learning research.