Like engineers who design high-performance Formula One race cars, scientists want to create high-performance plasmas in twisty fusion systems known as stellarators. Achieving this performance means ...
Plasma many times hotter than the surface of the sun swirls inside of a large device. From the outside, the device looks like a metal ring surrounded by scaffolding and walkways. But inside, the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have made a breakthrough in enhancing the performance of ...
Physicists have created a new computer code that could speed up the design of the complicated magnets that shape the plasma in stellarators, making the systems simpler and more affordable to build.