NASA’s GNEISS mission will use rockets and ground sensors to map three-dimensional electrical currents in auroras, offering direct measurements of auroral pathways in Earth’s upper atmosphere.

Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific ...

After the off-campus murder of a professor last semester, some MIT students returned to classes with thoughts on whether the school can protect them.

Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have developed a groundbreaking plasma tunnel to simulate the extreme ...

High-power lasers are promising tools for developing new solutions for healthcare, manufacturing and nuclear fusion. However, says the Strathclyde group, “these are becoming large and expensive owing ...

Plasma mirrors capable of withstanding the intensity of powerful lasers are being designed through an emerging machine ...

The IAEA’s new https://www.iaea.org/services/coordinated-research-activities CRP will create an international network of researchers, laboratories and industry partners.  It will strengthen ...

According to findings published in Science Advances, scientists using China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak ...

When the US Department of Energy announced that it would stop funding the tokamak at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Dennis Whyte considered giving up on fusion research. But as this excerpt ...

Computer cooling primarily happens with regular old fans blowing air through a fixed heatsink assembly. This has various complexities; fans need a relatively large amount of space, and they make a lot ...

Nuno F.G. Loureiro pushed for revolutionary breakthroughs in the complex, arcane field of plasma science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he served as director of one of the ...

Last week, lauded theoretical physicist and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Nuno Loureiro was murdered in his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. Since then, investigators have made ...