Scientists at a U.S. government plasma lab have discovered a missing component in nuclear fusion equations that could speed up development of a working reactor. Specifically, the discovery could ...

Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost ...

The Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 8, No. 1/2 (WINTER AND SPRING 1978), pp. 323-331 (9 pages) A nonlinear evolution equation is derived for Alfvén waves propagating along the magnetic ...

AIP Publishing has selected Stephen C. Jardin, PhD, Principal Research Physicist and Professor at the Plasma Physics Faculty ...

Very soon after the Big Bang, the universe enjoyed a brief phase where quarks and gluons roamed freely, not yet joined up into hadrons such as protons, neutrons and mesons. This state, called a ...