Founder Ratu Mataira is convinced OpenStar can outpace rivals with its cheaper reactor design.

At the same time, a current of cold electrons travels toward the heated plasma from the opposite direction. When the two meet, the plasma develops filament-shaped instabilities that SLAC’s facilities ...

Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing atoms. When plasma particles escape the core of the ...

A grape, sliced nearly in half and placed in a household microwave, can produce a bright flash of plasma, the same high-energy state of matter found in lightning bolts and the surface of the sun. For ...

All three security checkpoints remained open Monday at Baltimore's airport amid a partial federal government shutdown.

Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis activity in the last 100 years, as the solar maximum cycle sends the sun’s plasma cascading towards our atmosphere. Man of Many’s intrepid Arctic reporter is there ...