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 ...

Caltech experiments uncovered a stable double helix state in plasma flux ropes. The same principles explain cosmic structures such as the Double Helix Nebula. Research into the Sun’s outer atmosphere ...

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 ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists drawn ...

A promising technique for tracking boost-glide hypersonic vehicles involves detecting radio waves emitted by plasma in the wake. Passive detection would be a valuable capability, since existing ...

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 ...