Physicists have watched a quantum fluid do something once thought almost impossible: stop moving. In experiments with ...

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

Low-temperature plasmas are intrinsically non-equilibrium systems in which electromagnetic fields, particle transport, and thermodynamic processes interact ...

The extreme conditions spacecraft have to survive to safely reenter Earth's atmosphere have been difficult to reproduce in ...

In the very first moments after the Big Bang, the universe looked nothing like it does today. Instead of stars, atoms, or ...

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.

Scientists recreate the early universe to study the first liquid ever formed and uncover how quarks moved through primordial matter.

A strange, glowing form of matter called dusty plasma turns out to be incredibly sensitive to magnetic fields. Researchers found that even weak fields can change how tiny particles grow, simply by ...

Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, CERN's Large Hadron Collider, scientists have discovered that the trillion-degree hot primordial "soup" that filled the cosmos for mere millionths ...

Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.

When astronomers look out into the cosmos, they see supermassive black holes (SMBH) in two different states. In one state, they're dormant. They're actively accreting only a tiny amount of matter and ...

Rendering of dusty nanoparticles suspended in a glowing plasma cloud, where magnetic fields guide their motion and growth, showing how even weak magnetism can reshape matter at the nanoscale. Credit: ...