Understanding instabilities and turbulence in plasmas is one of the key challenges across a wide range of plasma research ...

Editor's note: this article was originally posted on PPPL's website. Classes were back in (virtual) session at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s (PPPL) Graduate Summer School (GSS) where ...

Scientists in the state of New York have created a first-of-a-kind superconducting neural chip ...

Fashioned from the same element found in sand and covered by intricate patterns, microchips power smartphones, augment appliances and aid the operation of cars and airplanes. Now, scientists at the ...

In a few picoseconds (trillionths of a second), a small, thin piece of copper momentarily becomes dense plasma, specifically a state called warm dense matter, warm being a relative term—the metal is ...

"What is the Force?"This is a question every fan has pondered at least once. In the Star Wars films, it is described as "an ...

Researchers have uncovered a process in the swirling masses of plasma surrounding black holes and neutron stars that can cause previously unexplained emissions of light and heat. These findings can ...

Elizabeth Paul, a groundbreaking physicist who is a 2015 alumna and a 2020 Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has won ...

One of the greatest hurdles to realizing fusion power is "ignition." This is a state where the plasma continues to burn using the heat generated by the fusion reaction itself, without the need for ...