Scientists have made a groundbreaking advancement in fusion energy containment, solving a 70-year-old problem.

In the world of particle physics, scientists explore the tiniest building blocks of the universe by smashing high-energy ...

A visualization of high energy particles, in the form of plasma ... how they can be reached simultaneously is far from obvious. For example, increasing the plasma density is advantageous in principle, ...

To learn more about the nature of matter, energy, space, and time, physicists smash high-energy particles together ... and astronomy experiments. For example, researchers at JPL—who are among ...

Big problem for fusion energy solved Their method to speed up the design of 'magnetic bottles' offers an answer to a complex 70-year-old challenge Date: May 5, 2025 Source: University of Texas at ...

Predicted motions of hundreds of particles in a fusion reactor. The motions predicted with the new method (orange, red) agree very closely with those predicted by Newton’s laws (blue, green ...

To learn more about the nature of matter, energy, space, and time, physicists smash high-energy particles together in large accelerator ... in quantum networks and astronomy experiments. For example, ...

One of the big challenges holding fusion energy back has been the ability to contain high-energy particles inside fusion reactors. When high-energy alpha particles leak from a reactor, that prevents ...