Hot stuff The first plasma at the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak. (Courtesy: University of Seville) A novel fusion device based at the University of Seville in Spain has achieved its first plasma. The ...

Matter can be both wave and particle. If you take the particle route, these subatomic particles are what you could say the universe and everything in it is made of. There are many ways to further ...

Don Lincon, a senior scientist at the U.S. particle physics laboratory Fermilab, describes bosons as “puppies of the subatomic world” because you can have an unlimited number of bosons in the ...

Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how collisionless shock waves -- found throughout the universe -- are able to accelerate particles to extreme speeds. Scientists have come a ...

Over the decades, and influenced by the geopolitics of energy and the need for cleaner sources to power our lives in the era of climate change, civilian efforts have focused on sustaining stable ...

Even once researchers can reliably get more power out of a fusion reaction than they put in, they'll still need to overcome engineering challenges to scale up fusion energy. The experiment ...

There's a significant imbalance between matter and antimatter in our universe, but a strange particle called "the Majoron" could finally explain it, an audacious new study suggests. When you ...

There is one notable exception to this strict rule of quantum-state segregation. Restricted to just two dimensions, some materials can give rise to a particle-like behavior that breaks the statistical ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is currently located in a clean room at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland (courtesy: NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya) Engineers have successfully integrated ...

George R. Tynan has received research funding from the US Department of Energy and the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, and has served on numerous advisory panels to DOE and the International ...

That made them more like anyons, a particle type that sits between fermions and bosons — yet the fractional excitons had unique properties that set them apart from anyons, as well. “This unexpected ...