Russia's state-owned Rosatom announced a prototype plasma engine which could speed up travel to other planets.

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The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak achieved a remarkable scientific milestone by maintaining steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for an impressive 1,066 seconds. Credit: ...

China’s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has claimed a new world record for maintaining a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation, a feat needed to create a fusion reactor that in theory ...

These electrons emit radiation as they spin, and this radiation is amplified by wave–particle interactions with other electrons to form chorus waves. Liu et al. showed that the plasma is ...

Researchers from the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP ... the deformation of the energetic particle distribution function.

Over the last several years, it has consistently broken fusion records, and it can now add a new one to its collection: the longest sustained ultra-hot plasma. They kept it going for 1,066 seconds ...

Scientists in China on a quest to build a nuclear fusion reactor capable of producing unlimited, low-cost energy have achieved a sustained plasma temperature exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius ...

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In a pioneering approach to achieve fusion energy, the SMART device has successfully generated its first tokamak plasma. This step brings the international fusion community closer to achieving ...