Tag: plasma

1,337 seconds: that was how long a tokamak was able to maintain plasma.

Cutting edge agriculture just got a bit better.

Whether this is a viable long-term solution remains to be seen.

Another step towards a working fusion reactor.

As one Reddit comment put it, they "gotta pay that tuition somehow".

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We're basically copying off of Nature.

Breathe in deep -- it's safe.

Real reactors lack boom.

A rare antibody his body produces made his blood priceless to doctors.

Meet a shimmering purple ribbon of plasma called Steve.

The ancients often got it wrong about science -- but they weren't that far off.

Landfill waste is given a second life by blasting it with plasma hotter than the sun. Now that's a project ...

Human ingenuity knows no limit.

It's the plot of a dark vampire movie.

Endless clean energy is just too good to pass up.

A new nanomaterial printing method could make it both easier and cheaper to create devices such as wearable chemical and ...

NASA's Cassini probe recently observed mysterious, huge amounts of plasma on the fringes of Saturn's magnetic field; surprisingly, they were ...

Take a candle, light it, turn it on its side -- we all know what will happen. The convection cell ...

The Rosetta probe found a comet which "sings". Image via ABC. As I am writing this, the Rosetta mission's lander, ...

Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have devised a particle accelerator that can increase the kinetic energy of particles passing ...

Scientists closely working with the  Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world, have identified evidence of ...

An international team of physicists have used one of the world's most powerful lasers to create an unusual kind of ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... at about 2 billion light years away from Earth lies ...

This Friday, a solar eruption of spectacular proportions took place. The ensuing plasma wave, measuring millions of degrees in temperature, ...

Not one, but two independent high-energy particle physics laboratories in New York (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider - RHIC) and Geneva ...

Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world's most powerful X-ray laser fired upon a neon gas capsule ...

I know some of you are either nostalgic or plain tired of all the Atlantis posts we've been publishing lately, ...

Each year for three weeks, professional cyclists suffer at great lengths, enduring both physical and mental pain, in the Tour ...

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has taken another step towards its goal of finding the so called 'god particle': ...