A doctoral student from the University of Sydney’s School of Physics re-created a little bit of the universe in a bottle.

To help make commercial fusion energy a reality, PPPL leads the StellFoundry project, which uses AI to sift through enormous amounts of data to determine which fusion system configurations are best.

The renowned Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has named Prof. Dr. Julia Tjus. Julia Tjus is Professor of Theoretical Physics IV – Plasma Astroparticle Physics at Ruhr University Bochum and Associated ...

The machines at their center, called tokamaks, have evolved from experimental curiosities into instruments capable of sustaining confined plasma – matter so hot it mimics the ...

In 2025, China once again enjoyed a bumper year of scientific and technological innovation, with major sci-tech achievements emerging one after another. China has become one of the economies with the ...

We are in the middle of a long-term geopolitical race as China, Europe and the U.K. continue pouring billions into fusion development.

All celestial bodies—planets, suns, even entire galaxies—produce magnetic fields, affecting such cosmic processes as the solar wind, high-energy particle transport, and galaxy formation. Small-scale ...

Learn how physicists recreated the early universe’s primordial soup, known as quark-gluon plasma, and discovered how it responds when particles race through it.

Russia is once again trying to vault itself to the front of the space race, this time with a plasma engine that officials say ...

All of these new developments don’t mean that the sun is ready to give up its fusion monopoly, as many significant ...