How fast can a galaxy build ordered magnetic fields spanning thousands of light-years? Existing theories say several billion years, but observations of galaxies in our universe imply shorter ...

The U.S. Department of Energy now has two major supercomputing systems aimed at accelerating fusion energy research through ...

A new study by the SETI Institute suggests that the alien signals might be right here, surrounding us all of the time, and we ...

Crystal jellyfish have an eerie beauty: thanks to a natural protein, they emit a faint green glow. For decades, researchers ...

In New Zealand’s compact capital Wellington, a small group of scientists and engineers just got a little closer to replicating the power of the sun. OpenStar Technologies on Tuesday successfully ...

What if the strings of a guitar could float, untethered, held in place by nothing but invisible magnetic forces? It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but Mattias Krantz outlines how he turned ...

The big picture: For decades, the promise of fusion power seemed just out of reach – a theoretical miracle of physics that stubbornly refused to move from blueprint to breaker box. Yet in laboratories ...

With Christmas only 10 days away, holiday shoppers are scrambling to purchase the gifts they want to give. If your holiday shopping list includes toys, there are some that consumers should avoid ...

Fusion technology company Thea Energy said it has completed its preconceptual fusion power plant design. The company, founded in 2022 as a spin-out of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and ...

The sun is governed by a strict rhythm. The magnetic activity of the sun displays a cyclic variation, reaching a maximum approximately every eleven years. Two enormous plasma circulations, each in one ...

The possibility of generating useful amounts of electricity by blowing hot gas between the poles of a magnet has long intrigued adventurous physicists. Many have tried to turn the trick, but until Dr.