Latest news from American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics on News en-us Copyright 2024 News 115 31 / /images/newswise-logo-rss.gif /�����پ��������/“d�ܲ���-�ܱ�”-�Dz�-���Գٱ���Բ��پ��DzԲ���-���貹����-���ٲ��پ��Dz�-�󾱲Գٲ�-����-���dzܰ������-�Ǵ�-���ٰ��ܳ��ٳܰ���/?����=�������� /�����پ��������/“d�ܲ���-�ܱ�”-�Dz�-���Գٱ���Բ��پ��DzԲ���-���貹����-���ٲ��پ��Dz�-�󾱲Գٲ�-����-���dzܰ������-�Ǵ�-���ٰ��ܳ��ٳܰ���/?����=�������� Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:00:00 EST Imagine looking under your couch and instead of finding fluffy dust bunnies, you see the dust is arranged in straight lines--you might wonder what caused this order. American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics /articles/laser-blasting-antimatter-into-existence/?sc=rsin /articles/laser-blasting-antimatter-into-existence/?sc=rsin Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:00:00 EST Antimatter is an exotic material that vaporizes when it contacts regular matter. If you hit an antimatter baseball with a bat made of regular matter, it would explode in a burst of light. It is rare to find antimatter on Earth, but it is believed to exist in the furthest reaches of the universe. American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics /articles/peak-performance:-new-stellarator-experiments-show-promising-results/?sc=rsin /articles/peak-performance:-new-stellarator-experiments-show-promising-results/?sc=rsin Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:00:00 EST Imagine building a machine so advanced and precise you need a supercomputer to help design it. That's exactly what scientists and engineers in Germany did when building the Wendelstein 7-X experiment. American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics /articles/a-stellar-achievement:-magnetized-space-winds-in-the-laboratory/?sc=rsin /articles/a-stellar-achievement:-magnetized-space-winds-in-the-laboratory/?sc=rsin Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:00:00 EST New insights have been gained about stellar winds, streams of high-speed charged particles called plasma that blow through interstellar space. These winds, created by eruptions from stars or stellar explosions, carry with them strong magnetic fields which can interact with or effect other magnetic fields American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics /articles/flying-focus:-controlling-lasers-through-time-and-space/?sc=rsin /articles/flying-focus:-controlling-lasers-through-time-and-space/?sc=rsin Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:00:00 EST Scientists have produced an extremely bright spot of light that can travel at any speed--including faster than the speed of light. Researchers have found a way to use this concept, called "flying focus," to move an intense laser focal point over long distances at any speed. Their technique includes capturing some of the fastest movies ever recorded. American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics /articles/laboratory-experiments-probe-the-formation-of-stars-and-planets/?sc=rsin /articles/laboratory-experiments-probe-the-formation-of-stars-and-planets/?sc=rsin Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:00:00 EST The cosmos is a void dotted with stars and an ever-increasing number of newly-observed planets beyond our solar system. Yet, how these stars and planets formed out of clouds of interstellar dust and gas remains mysterious. American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics /articles/magnetic-pumping-pushes-plasma-particles-to-high-energies/?sc=rsin /articles/magnetic-pumping-pushes-plasma-particles-to-high-energies/?sc=rsin Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:00:00 EST As you walk away from a campfire on a cool autumn night, you quickly feel colder. The same thing happens in outer space. As it spins, the sun continuously flings hot material into space, out to the furthest reaches of our solar system. American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics /articles/taming-plasmas:-improving-fusion-using-microwaves2/?sc=rsin /articles/taming-plasmas:-improving-fusion-using-microwaves2/?sc=rsin Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:00:00 EST We all know microwaves are good for cooking popcorn, but scientists have recently shown they can also prevent dangerous waves in plasmas and help produce clean, nearly limitless energy with fusion. American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics /articles/inside-job:-a-new-technique-to-cool-a-fusion-reactor/?sc=rsin /articles/inside-job:-a-new-technique-to-cool-a-fusion-reactor/?sc=rsin Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:00:00 EST Fusion offers the potential of near limitless energy by heating a gas trapped in a magnetic field to incredibly high temperatures where atoms are so energetic that they fuse together when they collide. But if that hot gas, called a plasma, breaks free from the magnetic field, it must be safely put back in place to avoid damaging the fusion device--this problem has been one of the great challenges of magnetically confined fusion. American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics /articles/free-science-events-and-educational-opportunities-expected-to-draw-thousands/?sc=rsin /articles/free-science-events-and-educational-opportunities-expected-to-draw-thousands/?sc=rsin Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:00:00 EST The Plasma Sciences Expo--planned as the biggest celebration of plasma physics in the country--presents teachers, students and the public with a free opportunity to explore what scientists call "the fourth state of matter." American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics /articles/a-faster,-cheaper-path-to-fusion-energy/?sc=rsin /articles/a-faster,-cheaper-path-to-fusion-energy/?sc=rsin Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:00:00 EST Scientists are working to dramatically speed up the development of fusion energy in an effort to deliver power to the electric grid soon enough to help mitigate impacts of climate change. The arrival of a breakthrough technology American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics /articles/daniel-s.-clark-wins-2018-ronald-c.-davidson-award-for-plasma-physics2/?sc=rsin /articles/daniel-s.-clark-wins-2018-ronald-c.-davidson-award-for-plasma-physics2/?sc=rsin Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:00:00 EST AIP Publishing has announced its selection of Daniel S. Clark, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and leader of the National Ignition Facility's (NIF) Capsule Modeling Working Group within the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) Program, as the winner of the 2018 Ronald C. Davidson Award for Plasma Physics. American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics