A new kind of plasma accelerator has cleared a hurdle that has dogged the field for decades, lifting electron energy and beam ...
Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los ...
China’s EAST reactor just broke a fundamental fusion limit—bringing the dream of ignition a big step closer. shutterstock.
Researchers working on China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally ...
A team of Chinese and American scientists has learned how to maintain high fusion performance under steady conditions by exploiting a characteristic of the plasma itself: the plasma self-generates ...
A team of scientists led by University of Virginia professor Patrick Hopkins is developing a plasma "freeze ray" that will be less interesting to super villains than to engineers looking for ways to ...
PASADENA, Calif.–Applied physicists at the California Institute of Technology have devised a plasma experiment that shows how huge long, thin jets of material shoot out from exotic astrophysical ...
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The U.S. Air Force recently awarded a three-year/$750,000 research grant to the University of Virginia’s (UVA) ExSiTE Lab (Experiments and Simulations in Thermal Engineering) to evaluate the prospect ...
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