Plasma has long been treated as an exotic laboratory curiosity, yet a new world-first result is forcing scientists to look at ...
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Plasma physics is the study of the fourth state of matter, composed of highly energetic charged particles. Auburn is known internationally for faculty, postdocs and students conducting research in the ...
National Geographic Explorer Paolo Verzone provides a rare peek inside a stellarator, an experiment that aims to give the world near-limitless clean energy.
Producing fusion energy requires heating plasma to more than one hundred million degrees and confining it stably with strong ...
Alfvén accelerator: artist’s illustration of how Alfvén waves in Earth’s magnetic field can accelerate the electrons responsible for intense auroras. (Courtesy: Austin Montelius/University of Iowa) ...
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 ...