AIP Publishing today announced that Igor Kaganovich of the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ...

The U.S. Department of Energy 's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) celebrated a significant milestone in the ...

Nuclear fusion, which operates on the same principle that powers the sun, is expected to become a sustainable energy source ...

When two grapes touch inside a microwave, energy becomes trapped in the tiny gap between them. Instead of heating evenly, the ...

Ground-based telescopes detect these emissions, but an intriguing issue arises when the high-energy gamma rays scatter off background light, creating cascades of electron-positron pairs. Surprisingly, ...

The bright multicolored lights of the aurora borealis have been spotted shining in the sky above Iowa City. This breathtaking phenomenon is usually reserved for areas closer to the Earth’s poles, but ...

Simulations and satellite data reveal that Earth's magnetic field is more complex than scientists had thought. Scientists ...

Ars Technica: The Voyager Golden Record is perhaps the best known example of humans attempting to communicate with an alien ...

Quark-gluon plasma, a bizarre state of matter that mimics the early cosmos, is the hottest thing ever made on Earth ...

An international team of fusion experts is now leveraging America's expertise to bring an amazing concept to fruition.

But as the chip maker seeks to parlay its semiconductor dominance into control of the full stack, vendor lock-in is a major risk, says one analyst.

Could decades of magnetospheric theory have been looking at Earth’s electric heart the wrong way around? The answer, in new ...