For the first time, scientists have "photographed" a rare plasma instability, where high-energy electron beams form into ...

2022 marks a new year as the world is trying to move through the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, Nano Letters pivoted to providing authors more allowances in their submissions and revisions, to ...

Fusion energy, the process of fusing light atomic nuclei to generate energy, has long been considered the key to a clean and virtually limitless power source. Magnetic confinement fusion, the most ...

China's existing national tokamak project, EAST, has been setting records, volleying with France's project WEST in the last couple months for the longest ever containment of plasma inside a ...

MELVILLE, N.Y., March 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- AIP Publishing is excited to announce that the first issue of APL Electronic Devices, its newest open access journal, is now available online. APL ...

“Real” Ion Thrusters are of course silent… Ion drives, thrusters or boosters are part of a class of solar electric propulsion (SEP) engines whereby ionized propellant is focused out the back ...

Liu’s research has centred mainly on plasma physics and nuclear fusion ... energy leakage – and other energetic particles in magnetic confinement fusion devices. Magnetic confinement is ...

Of the 17 years that I’ve been incarcerated for killing an abusive boyfriend, I spent eight — from 2016 to last May — in what the state calls “restrictive housing,” but I call “solitary confinement” ...