While trying out a new device that injects powder to clean up the walls of the world's largest stellarator, a twisty fusion device known as Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) in Greifswald, Germany, scientists were pleased to find that ...
Plasma Physics
Dec 2, 2021
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Research conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is taking a closer look at entropy—the measure of internal energy per unit temperature that is unavailable for doing useful work—in experiments at the ...
Plasma Physics
Nov 23, 2021
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Using Resonant Magnetic Perturbations (RMP), researchers led by Prof. Sun Youwen from the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences took the lead in demonstrating the integrated Edge Localized Mode (ELM) ...
Plasma Physics
Oct 29, 2021
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers now have a better understanding on how strong the magnetic fields are in an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosion at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the ...
General Physics
Oct 27, 2021
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At the heart of planets, extreme states are to be found: temperatures of thousands of degrees, pressures a million times greater than atmospheric pressure. They can therefore only be explored directly to a limited extent—which ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 5, 2021
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Cosmic rays are charged subnuclear particles that move close to the speed of light, constantly raining down on the Earth. These particles are relativistic, as defined by Albert Einstein's special relativity, and manage to ...
Plasma Physics
Aug 24, 2021
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Friction in plasma gets weird in the presence of very strong magnetic fields, a team of plasma researchers at the University of Michigan has shown. The findings could affect fusion energy strategies and the development of ...
Plasma Physics
Aug 17, 2021
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Nothing seems more familiar than the sun in the sky. But mysterious swirls, jets, and flashes of powerful light that scientists cannot explain occur in the sun's outer atmosphere all the time. Now, researchers at the U.S. ...
Plasma Physics
Jul 8, 2021
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The properties of materials under extreme conditions are of key interest to a number of fields, including planetary geophysics, materials science and inertial confinement fusion (ICF). In geophysics, the equation of state ...
Plasma Physics
Jun 17, 2021
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While advances in machine learning over the past decade have made significant impacts in applications such as image classification, natural language processing and pattern recognition, scientific endeavors have only just ...
Optics & Photonics
May 26, 2021
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