See also stories tagged with Nuclear fusion

Search results for nuclear fusion

Space Exploration Oct 3, 2022

Studying yeast DNA in space may help protect astronauts from cosmic radiation

Nuclear fusion reactions in the sun are the source of heat and light we receive on Earth. These reactions release a massive amount of cosmic radiation—including X-rays and gamma rays—and charged particles that can be ...

Polymers Sep 29, 2022

From super-sealings to the detection of dangerous cables thanks to ion beams

When accelerated neutrons or ions bombard a material, its surface layer undergoes dramatic physical and chemical transformations. The National Center for Nuclear Research in Swierk, Poland, has managed to learn in detail ...

Plasma Physics Sep 28, 2022

The process of waves carrying plasma heat is observed for the first time

In fusion power generation, it is essential that the high-energy particles generated by a fusion reaction in hot plasma heat it to sustain further fusion reactions. The key to this self-heating of the plasma is whether it ...

Plasma Physics Sep 19, 2022

Researchers determine new method for measuring high energy density plasmas and facilitating inertial confinement fusion

An international team of scientists has uncovered a new method for advancing the development of fusion energy through increased understanding of the properties of warm dense matter, an extreme state of matter similar to that ...

Astronomy Sep 19, 2022

Astrophysics: Stars' childhoods shape stellar evolution

In classical models of stellar evolution, so far little importance has been attached to the early evolution of stars. Thomas Steindl from the Department of Astro- and Particle Physics at the University of Innsbruck now shows ...

Plasma Physics Sep 8, 2022

A deep dive into the interior of red dwarfs

Red dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the Milky Way, making up 70% of all stars.

General Physics Sep 7, 2022

Key advance in physics research could help enable super-efficient electrical power

Today, an international team of researchers led by Séamus Davis, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and University College Cork, has announced results that reveal the atomic mechanism behind high-temperature ...

Astronomy Sep 5, 2022

Red giant Betelgeuse was yellow some 2,000 years ago

An interdisciplinary team centered around a Jena astrophysicist utilized observations from antiquity to prove that Betelgeuse—the bright red giant star in the upper left of the constellation Orion—was yellow-orange some ...

Plasma Physics Aug 30, 2022

Elemental research: Scientists apply boron to tungsten components in fusion facilities

What is the connection between boron, an element in a common household cleaner, and tokamaks, ring-shaped fusion facilities that heat fuel to million-degree temperatures? Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) ...

Nanophysics Aug 22, 2022

Electron slow motion: Ion physics on the femtosecond scale

How do different materials react to the impact of ions? This is a question that plays an important role in many areas of research—for example, in nuclear fusion research, when the walls of the fusion reactor are bombarded ...

page 16 from 40