Physics of Plasmas

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Unraveling the Nature of ‘Whistlers’ from Space in the Lab

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 14, 2018 — Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles present new research on a curious cosmic phenomenon known as “whistlers” — very […]

Aboard the International Space Station, Researchers Investigate Complex Dust Behavior in Plasmas

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 7, 2018 — 400 kilometers above Earth, researchers examined waves in complex plasma under microgravity conditions and found that the microparticles behaved in nonuniform ways […]

New Experimental Results from the Largest and Most Sophisticated Stellerator

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 3, 2018 — An international team of scientists is running tests on the largest and most sophisticated stellerator, the Wendelstein 7-X fusion experiment. This […]

Understanding Mercury’s Magnetic Tail

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 17, 2018 – Theoretical physicists used simulations to explain the unusual readings collected in 2009 by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging […]

New Turbulent Transport Modeling Shows Multiscale Fluctuations in Heated Plasma

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 13, 2018 — Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, a DOE Office of Science user facility operated by General Atomics, used a “reduced […]

Researchers Model Coulomb Crystals to Understand Star Evolution

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 7, 2017 — Matter in the cores of old white dwarfs and the crusts of neutron stars is compressed to unimaginable densities by intense […]

New Thruster Design Increases Efficiency for Future Spaceflight

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 15, 2017 — Hall thrusters (HTs) are used in earth-orbiting satellites, and also show promise to propel robotic spacecraft long distances, such as from […]

Chaotic Magnetic Field Lines May Answer the Coronal Heating Problem

WASHINGTON D.C., August 9, 2017 — It is known that the sun’s corona — the outermost layer of the sun’s atmosphere — is roughly 100 times hotter […]

A Bar Magnet Creates Chaos in Plasma

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 25, 2017 — Placing a magnet on your refrigerator might hold up your calendar, but researchers from India’s Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics found […]