A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma ...

Plasma happens when gas gets heated to a very high temperature and the atoms lose their electrons. Find out more about this state of matter. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

Pushing scientists closer than ever to understanding the Big Bang, physicists have finally measured the temperature of ...

Researchers in Korea have made a massive discovery that could change the way we approach nuclear fusion and our understanding ...

UK scientists are celebrating landmark progress to using fusion as a clean energy source, after managing to “capture a star” ...

In middle and high school, most people learn about the three states of matter we interact with in our everyday lives: solid, liquid and gas. Some students may have even been introduced to the idea of ...

As stellarator configurations are challenging to build, most fusion experiments today are tokamaks (a short form for a Russian expression that translates as ‘toroidal chamber with magnetic coils’).

Recent developments within the field of physics have brought forth a groundbreaking discovery: a new state of matter. This revelation, taking place within a laboratory setting, promises not only to ...

The Sun has a weather pattern of its own, and one of the strangest is the solar rain that falls in its atmosphere during ...

Dr. Jeremiah Williams, Wittenburg University professor of physics; Physics Division, National Science Foundation In nature, matter naturally exists in one of four states. The most common (and least ...

Supermassive black holes have been known to belch gigantic beams of plasma into space – and now scientists have managed to recreate these fireballs in a lab at CERN. Although black holes are famous ...