Watch the moment SpaceX’s Starship rocket is enveloped by plasma as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Thursday 14 March. The world’s biggest rocket was launched from Texas in its third - and most ...

Plasma has long been treated as an exotic laboratory curiosity, yet a new world-first result is forcing scientists to look at ...

Nobody ever said the Light Saber was a practical weapon – it's no match for a good blaster, if you ask me – but it exerts a powerful fascination. Special Operations Command have "completed ongoing ...

The Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) is the largest and most advanced stellarator in the world, and on its tenth birthday, it’s clear the experiment has graduated from a bold engineering prototype to a running ...

Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC) plasma research represents a compelling avenue in the quest for practical magnetic fusion energy. In an FRC, the plasma itself generates a self-organised magnetic ...

Reversed field pinch (RFP) plasma physics is a distinctive branch of magnetic confinement research that explores self-organised plasma equilibria in which the toroidal magnetic field reverses in the ...

Professor Satoshi Fujii (Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology) and Assistant Professor Jun Fukushima (Department of Applied Chemistry, ...

Dr. Alexander Fridman, the John A. Nyheim Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics and a pioneer of plasma technology, has been awarded the 2019 Plasma Chemistry Award ...

GFEAs are crucial components in advanced microwave vacuum electron devices and vacuum transistors — tiny devices that can ...

Boeing has been granted a patent for a force field-like defense system, leading excited sci-fi fans to herald the advent of something previously seen only in the realms of “Star Wars” or “Star Trek.” ...