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General Physics Mar 6, 2025

Neutrinos could tell us about the inside of the sun and establish density structure

Neutrinos generated through solar fusion reactions travel effortlessly through the sun's dense core. Each specific fusion process creates neutrinos with distinctive signatures, potentially providing a method to examine the ...

Plasma Physics Feb 28, 2025

Deep learning model boosts plasma predictions in nuclear fusion by 1,000 times

A research team, led by Professor Jimin Lee and Professor Eisung Yoon in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at UNIST, has unveiled a deep learning–based approach that significantly accelerates the computation of a nonlinear ...

Plasma Physics Feb 26, 2025

Some fuel will get stuck in inner walls of fusion vessels: Research provides a better idea of how much

To develop a practical fusion power system, scientists need to fully understand how the plasma fuel interacts with its surroundings. The plasma is superheated, which means some of the atoms involved can strike the wall of ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 25, 2025

A completely new type of microscopy based on quantum sensors

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have invented an entirely new field of microscopy called nuclear spin microscopy. The team can visualize magnetic signals of nuclear magnetic resonance with a microscope. ...

General Physics Feb 19, 2025

Germanium detectors help physicists unlock the mysteries of the universe

Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus in 1911, studying its structure and behavior has remained a challenging task. More than a century later, even with today's high-tech tools for researching ...

Plasma Physics Feb 19, 2025

Nuclear fusion: WEST machine beats the world record for plasma duration

1,337 seconds: that was how long WEST, a tokamak run from the CEA Cadarache site in southern France and one of the EUROfusion consortium medium size Tokamak facilities, was able to maintain a plasma for on 12 February. This ...

Plasma Physics Feb 18, 2025

Unlocking the secrets of fusion's core with AI-enhanced simulations

Creating and sustaining fusion reactions—essentially recreating star-like conditions on Earth—is extremely difficult, and Nathan Howard, Ph.D., a principal research scientist at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center ...

Analytical Chemistry Feb 18, 2025

High-entropy MOF enables efficient deuterium separation for clean energy

A research team affiliated with UNIST has successfully developed a new porous material for the efficient separation of deuterium, a primary fuel for nuclear fusion. The team, jointly led by Professors Wonyoung Cho and Hyunchul ...

Astrobiology Feb 17, 2025

Evolving intelligent life took billions of years—but it may not have been as unlikely as many scientists predicted

A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.

Astrobiology Feb 13, 2025

White dwarf stars may host more habitable exoplanets than expected

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could provide a stellar environment hospitable to life-supporting exoplanets, according to astronomers at the ...

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