Watch the moment SpaceX’s Starship rocket is enveloped by plasma as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Thursday 14 March. The world’s biggest rocket was launched from Texas in its third - and most ...

Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC) plasma research represents a compelling avenue in the quest for practical magnetic fusion energy. In an FRC, the plasma itself generates a self-organised magnetic ...

The most powerful geomagnetic storm of the current solar cycle has just torn into the invisible bubble of charged particles ...

Reversed field pinch (RFP) plasma physics is a distinctive branch of magnetic confinement research that explores self-organised plasma equilibria in which the toroidal magnetic field reverses in the ...

Nobody ever said the Light Saber was a practical weapon – it's no match for a good blaster, if you ask me – but it exerts a powerful fascination. Special Operations Command have "completed ongoing ...

GFEAs are crucial components in advanced microwave vacuum electron devices and vacuum transistors — tiny devices that can ...

Dr. Alexander Fridman, the John A. Nyheim Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics and a pioneer of plasma technology, has been awarded the 2019 Plasma Chemistry Award ...