The magnetic fields lacing through galaxy clusters and cosmic filaments have no business being there. The early universe was a hot, smooth soup of particles with no mechanism to spin up the enormous ...

UCSB and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory collaborate on AI-driven surrogate models to dramatically speed up complex ...

Edge Localized Modes, ELMs for short, are one of the disturbances of the plasma confinement that are caused by the interaction between the charged plasma particles and the confining magnetic field ...

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 ...

A new 3D simulation suggests the Sun's apparent spinning spicules may be bright sections of large folded plasma sheets rather ...

There are many opportunities for graduate student research in computational physics of plasmas and beams, including the study of nanoscale vacuum channel transistors, the study of the formation of ...

Understanding the mechanisms of interaction between plasma and microparticles is of a critical importance in various fields, including astrophysics, microelectronics, and plasma medicine. A common ...

The generation of fusion energy utilizes the fusion reaction that occurs inside a high-temperature plasma. In order to achieve the generation of fusion energy, we confine plasma in the magnetic field ...

Engineers designing nuclear fusion reactors have lived with an infuriating paradox for decades: the plasma conditions that best trap heat inside a reactor tend to be precisely the conditions that make ...

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 ...