Researchers discovered a donut-shaped region at the ceiling of the outer core This lighter region helps stir the liquid metal which generates the magnetic field Scientists have uncovered a vast ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are harnessing the power of computers to ...

The plasma is confined by magnetic fields in a doughnut-like torus shape, but heavier ‘exhaust’ elements from the so-called scrape-off layer (SOL) hit the divertor plate. “Plasma generates ...

This generates a poloidal magnetic field that bends the plasma current into a circle (green vertical circle). Bending the column into a circle prevents leakage and doing this inside a doughnut-shaped ...

The magnetic fields are aligned with a pair of doughnut-shaped belts known as the Van Allen radiation belts. These cloud-shaped belts specifically trap the charged particles streaming continuously ...