Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific understanding of how stars, nuclear detonations and fusion energy work. For ...

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A cancer treatment has been reformulated into a simple injection after its key components behaved differently in ...

Quantum computers hold great promise for exciting applications in the future, but for now they keep presenting physicists and engineers with a series of challenges and conundrums. One of them relates ...

Pacific Fusion today reported results from a series of experiments conducted at Sandia National Laboratories' Z Pulsed Power Facility under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement. In a ...

Physicists think a 2023 particle detection marks the first exploding black hole seen. If true, it rewrites our understanding of dark matter.

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Elon Musk built his reputation on turning improbable bets into working rockets and electric cars, but his tunneling venture ...

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A high-precision experiment is hunting for a forbidden particle flip that could expose new physics hiding in plain sight.