plasma

Together, these observations add another piece to the growing body of evidence that primordial plasma can emerge in nuclear collisions much smaller than those traditionally used to study it.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Rather than focusing primarily on the energy of particle jets, they examined how the plasma appears to reduce the production of certain energetic particles.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

The enhanced accelerator will allow scientists to collect substantially more collision data and investigate the properties of quark–gluon plasma in greater detail.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

If these paired jets, known as "di-jets," form near the edge of the collision region, one may have to travel farther through the plasma than the other.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Oxygen dissolves directly into their plasma, and so their blood is clear as the ice that surrounds them.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Machine learning has already shown considerable potential for controlling fusion plasmas.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

To avoid creating and managing radioactive waste, TAE wants to use a fuel that requires far hotter plasmas than other fusion companies aim for, posing a bigger physics challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory creates such plasmas by directing 192 powerful laser beams onto hydrogen-containing targets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

In donut-shaped devices known as tokamaks -- sometimes referred to as "stars in jars" -- magnetic fields struggle to contain plasmas that reach above 100 million degrees Celsius, hotter than the center of the Sun.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024

Even though natural plasmas are rare on Earth—other than lightning or the northern lights—man-made plasmas are everywhere.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas