For the first time, a team of physicists in the U.S. has clearly demonstrated a "helicon current drive" in a nuclear fusion ...

Nuclear fusion comes in all shapes and sizes, and while donut-shaped tokamaks are the most common, many companies and universities are investigating other ways to bring star power in cheaper and more ...

A new phenomenon discovered in plasma could have a major effect on the turbulence driving volatile and dangerous space ...

Imagine trying to trap a miniature star inside a machine without letting it touch the walls or burn itself out. This is the central, high-stakes challenge of high-temperature plasma engineering.

Professor Satoshi Fujii (Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology) and Assistant Professor Jun Fukushima (Department of Applied Chemistry, ...

Magnetic confinement exploits tailored magnetic fields to trap ionised gases at temperatures and densities required for applications ranging from fusion energy to specialised neutron sources. Systems ...

American Fusion has detailed the theoretical physics behind its Texatron Fusion Engine, outlining how pulsed magnetic compression and a rifled chamber could potentially create and confine plasma while ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising explanation for the Sun’s rapidly spinning plasma jets: they may not be spinning as they appear. A new international study, published in The Astrophysical ...

From its visible surface, the sun radiates heat at a relatively cool temperature of 5,800 Kelvin. Yet within the thin outer layer of the sun's atmosphere known as the corona, electrons can reach ...

Jupiter's Magnetosphere - How far does a planet's magnetic field dominate space? MVP ARCHIVE SCIENCE > Planetary Science : ...