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Madison, scientists at startup Realta Fusion published two papers outlining the viability of the magnetic mirror design for ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology on Thursday, October 16 at 11am for the talk "Plasma Bubbles in the Earth's Ionosphere: Theory and Observations" by Giorgio Picanco of ...

Microscopic turbulence in plasma can trigger macroscopic structural changes. In complex physical systems, such cross-scale ...

Five independent teams of researchers have reviewed the work and claims made by a group at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) who announced in December 2022 that they had achieved the first ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college ...

At the Columbia Plasma Physics Lab, researchers are tackling one of the most pressing challenges in creating clean energy: making nuclear fusion a viable power source. Unlike nuclear fission—the type ...

Two grants from the Department of Energy were recently awarded to professors in the Department of Physics, one to research professor Alla Safronova and another to professor Bruno Bauer. Both ...