Russell was one of the people that established the reputation of Princeton Plasma Physics Lab as the place to do plasma ...

Fusion is the next big energy frontier. Companies and nations alike are pouring money into researching it to find a way to ...

Around the world, research is advancing to efficiently confine fusion plasma and harness its immense energy for power ...

An experimental study conducted by the Laplace laboratory with the University of California, Los Angeles shows how the ...

Russell M. Kulsrud, 97, a pioneering theoretical physicist whose work helped define the modern fields of plasma physics and astrophysics — connecting the ...

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 ...

The footage offers an unprecedentedly colorful look at the extreme physics at play—revealing valuable information for ...

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in solar physics by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale torsional ...

Physicists used a machine-learning method to identify surprising new twists on the non-reciprocal forces governing a many-body system. The journal PNAS published the findings by experimental and ...

High-speed color images from a fusion machine reveal lithium turning greenish-yellow as it traces magnetic lines.

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 ...

Nuclear and plasma physics form complementary pillars in our understanding of the fundamental forces and states of matter. Nuclear physics investigates the structure, dynamics and interactions of ...