Plasma, the electrically charged state of matter that lights up stars and neon signs, has just revealed a subtle effect that ...

The interaction between electromagnetic waves and plasma is a subject of considerable interest due to its relevance in aerospace, telecommunications, and stealth technologies. When electromagnetic ...

Electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) generated during laser-plasma interactions represent a captivating frontier in modern physics. In these processes, intense laser beams interact with plasma targets, ...

Producing fusion energy requires heating plasma to more than one hundred million degrees and confining it stably with strong ...

What if the next new theory of the universe didn’t come from a human mind, but from an artificial one? In a development that has left the scientific community both awestruck and unsettled, artificial ...

Our universe started with a bang that blasted everything into existence. But what happened next is a mystery. Scientists think that before atoms formed—or even the protons and neutrons they’re made of ...

Physicists have used a machine-learning method to identify surprising new twists on the non-reciprocal forces governing a many-body system. The work is one of the relatively few instances of using AI ...

A promising method for producing and observing on Earth a process important to black holes, supernova explosions and other extreme cosmic events has been proposed. The process was proposed by ...

In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate why matter prevails over antimatter. This knot hypothesis, originally ...

At the Columbia Plasma Physics Lab, researchers are tackling one of the most pressing challenges in creating clean energy: making nuclear fusion a viable power source. Unlike nuclear fission—the type ...