New Zealand hits historic first plasma with levitated dipole nuclear reactor
Kiwi startup OpenStar's bold move to use levitating dipole reactor for fusion achieved a key milestone with its first plasma.
Nature17d
Plasma physics articles from across Nature Portfolio
Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising charged particles. Plasmas are usually created by heating a gas until the electrons become detached from their parent atom or molecule ...
Thales Group22d
Thales and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics set a world record in the field of nuclear fusion
Developed in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics specifically for the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator 1, Thales’s TH1507U gyrotron has achieved a significant milestone by ...
Space.com24d
NASA peers into the blistering hot plasma swirling around 12 black holes
A persistent mystery, however, has been the structure and makeup of black hole coronas — dynamic plasma regions that are part of the flow of matter into the black holes themselves. Similar to ...
Wall Street Journal24d
Empty Tables and Rising Costs Push More Restaurants Into Bankruptcy
Red Lobster has filed for bankruptcy protection and will sell its assets. WSJ explains what went wrong for the seafood restaurant chain. Americans love fish tacos, but not enough to keep Rubio’s ...
Interesting Engineering28d
How nuclear fusion study helps cut turbulence, boost plasma thruster power
Scientists at the Centre for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMAT) and the Plasma & Space Propulsion team at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) may seem to have little in ...