A supernova. A fusion reaction. Target manufacturing at Los Alamos lab helps understand what's happening under the hood.

Like engineers who design high-performance Formula One race cars, scientists want to create high-performance plasmas in ...

Merging some esoteric physics principles with an advanced instrument creates a magnetic microscope with resolution better ...

Discovery reshapes our understanding of heat transfer in extreme materials, with implications for inertial confinement fusion and high-energy-density science ...

The pursuit of clean, limitless energy has seen another record broken recently. The Chinese Experimental Advanced ...

Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising ... Plasmas are found naturally in stars and in space. Heat transport across interfaces can be restricted due to interfacial thermal ...

Heat usually follows a predictable path—spreading outward from a hot source until it dissipates evenly. But in some exotic ...

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists have discovered a novel approach to detecting the quantum ...

Researchers found that extreme heat can accelerate biological aging in elderly people. Florida is a popular destination to retire, but summer temperatures there are routinely in the 90s.

Extreme heat seems to speed up biological ageing in older people, suggesting that it could raise the risk of age-related diseases. “This is one of the first large-scale studies to link long-term ...

At a town-hall meeting in a Republican-friendly, Atlanta-area congressional district, boos rained down on GOP Rep. Rich McCormick as he tried to defend President Trump’s efforts to slash the ...

Rub a balloon on your hair and the balloon typically picks up a negative electric charge, while your hair goes positive. But a new study shows that the charge an object picks up can depend on its ...