Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream of controlled nuclear fusion may be within reach ...

At a June 12 ribbon-cutting event, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory unveiled a new, one-of-a-kind device that represents the next generation of research into fundamental plasma physics. The ...

Columbia’s plasma physics lab is part of a global effort to solve the challenges around fusion with critical contributions to pellet injection, plasma confinement, and plasma modeling research. While ...

“ [W]e have informed several research staff members that they will be separating from PPPL,” Deputy Director for Research Jon Menard wrote to research staff at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ...

The PPPL focuses on using plasma, often called “the fourth state of matter,” to tackle the world’s toughest science and technology challenges. In this episode of Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond, ...

Make your plasma hold onto this heat for long enough, and at high enough pressure, and more energy comes out than you put in to heat it up. Fusion is the opposite of the fission process that ...

Physicists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have proposed that the formation of "hills and valleys" in magnetic field lines could be the source of sudden collapses of heat ahead of ...

Their recognition follows in the footsteps of other PPPL legends, adding yet another chapter to the Lab’s storied legacy in plasma physics. The Maxwell Prize was first granted in 1975 to the Lab ...

In Princeton, N.J., the U.S. Department of Energy ’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has broken ground on the Princeton Plasma Innovation Center (PPIC), a state-of-the-art office and ...

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory published a new paper last week, marking significant results from the lab’s artificial intelligence research. In the paper, published in Nature Communications ...

A cutting-edge Electron-Ion Collider, which tracks the structure and behavior of atomic particles, will be built at Brookhaven National Lab on Long Island, NY.

A team of physicists and engineers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory built a twisting fusion reactor known as a stellarator that uses permanent magnets, showcasing a potentially cost ...