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 ...

Fusion is the next big energy frontier. Companies and nations alike are pouring money into researching it to find a way to ...

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

Imagine a cloud that shines like a neon sign, but instead of raindrops, it contains countless microscopic dust grains ...

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 ...

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

On the 30th of last month (local time), at the headquarters of Fuse Energy Technologies (Fuse), a nuclear fusion energy ...

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 ...

The first fusion reactions in a laboratory were achieved in 1934 — a major breakthrough at the time. Today, however, achieving a fusion reaction is not particularly difficult: in 2018, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...