Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising charged particles. Plasmas are usually created by heating a gas until the electrons become detached from their parent atom or molecule ...

A cornerstone of the US fusion research program, the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, has accomplished a major achievement. The nuclear fusion facility has completed its 200,000th experimental cycle.

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Developed in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics specifically for the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator 1, Thales’s TH1507U gyrotron has achieved a significant milestone by ...

A persistent mystery, however, has been the structure and makeup of black hole coronas — dynamic plasma regions that are part of the flow of matter into the black holes themselves. Similar to ...

Scientists at the Centre for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMAT) and the Plasma & Space Propulsion team at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) may seem to have little in ...