While sitting at the dining table recently, I was watching Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. In one memorable scene, Cooper ...

Researchers have designed a diamond-based quantum sensor that could help detect altermagnets, a newly discovered type of ...

High-temperature superconductor magnets have the potential to lower the costs of operating particle accelerators and enable powerful new technologies like fusion reactors. But quenches -- the sudden, ...

China's "artificial sun" program has cleared one of its toughest engineering hurdles, with two fully domestically developed ...

Nuclear fusion needs blankets, so to speak, and scientists, engineers and workers at General Atomics are poised to create a ...

Plasma pinches: From pursuits of nuclear fusion to an attractive point source of accelerated protons for proton radiography.

Researchers were unsure whether alpha particles would aid or hinder fusion. Simulations suggest they help, by dampening turbulence.

Future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond will expose astronauts to levels of radiation far greater than those ...

This superconducting magnet can do more than attract paper clips. It could unlock energy sources that could free humans from ...

A fusion company has made a few light bulbs glow by converting plasma straight into electricity for the very first time. The ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has found charged grains of dust being carried on magnetic plasma waves in the Sun's outer ...

It was a journey to the center of the Earth, if only for the briefest of moments. But rather than tunneling thousands of ...