New fusion research reveals how plasma can spontaneously generate its magnetic field, in a fundamental breakthrough.

The mechanism that can cause a rapidly expanding plasma—the superhot state of matter harnessed in fusion energy systems—to ...

The research team of Assistant Professor Masahiko Sato and Professor Yasushi Todo of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) has succeeded using ...

Scientists have determined the laser intensity threshold that causes expanding fusion plasmas to quickly generate strong magnetic fields. Detailed simulations tracked how these fields form within a ...

Researchers have identified the mechanism by which high-powered lasers can cause rapidly expanding plasmas to self-generate strong magnetic fields within a billionth of a second. The simulations show ...

The most detailed simulation of the chaotic supersonic plasma that floats across our universe has revealed an intricate map of swirling magnetic fields. Clouds of charged particles, or plasmas, are ...

The distribution function of energetic particles and the time evolution of the frequency spectrum of fluctuations. Initially, the energetic particle distribution function is mountain-like. It slopes ...

From the maw of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, two enormous jets stream thousands of light-years into space. Scientists still don’t fully understand the physics behind ...

Researchers have uncovered a previously hidden heating process that helps explain how the atmosphere that surrounds the sun called the "solar corona" can be vastly hotter than the solar surface that ...