Fusion physicists have always been haunted by a ghost in the machine known as the Greenwald limit. It’s a frustratingly ...

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David Severn has taken a series of images of scientists working on quantum physics for King’s College London’s new Quantum ...

On 7 November 2025, the Austrian Academy of Sciences inaugurated the Marietta Blau Institute for Particle Physics.

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Scientists at China’s EAST tokamak have achieved plasma densities beyond long-standing limits using plasma-wall ...

In this last part of our series on recently digitized books from the Wenner Collection, we are focusing on works that ...

Experiments at China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak have confirmed the existence of "a density-free region" ...

An international research project has been awarded £215,100 to explore some of the rarest and most unstable forms of matter ...

For a long time, the Greenwald limit was accepted as a given and incorporated into fusion reactor engineering. The new work shows that precise control over how the plasma is created and interacts with ...

At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

When it comes to understanding the universe, what we know is only a sliver of the whole picture.