ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is a multinational fusion project in France aiming to prove that ...

Greg Leyh likes to screw around with voltage and electric fields and plasma. In his time he's built some of the world's biggest Tesla coils, huge towering transformers that throw off terrifying webs ...

But during this time, the geometry of the tumour and the surrounding anatomy can vary, with different patients responding in different ways to the delivered radiation. To optimize treatment quality, ...

Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, U.K. Perioperative and Critical Care Theme, NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research ...

First tokamak plasma at the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak – SMART – recorded with a fast-framing camera in the visible spectral range. Credit: Universidad de Sevilla The University of Seville’s SMART ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), often referred to as China’s 'artificial sun,' successfully sustained plasma for a record 1,000 seconds, or over 17 minutes. This ...

What just happened? China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), nicknamed the artificial sun, has shattered its own world record for plasma confinement. On Monday, EAST ...

Key Laboratory of OptoElectronic Science and Technology for Medicine of Ministry of Education, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Photonics Technology, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350117 ...

China’s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has claimed a new world record for maintaining a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation, a feat needed to create a fusion reactor that in theory ...

The development of laser–plasma accelerators began in the early 1980s, inspired by the pioneering work of Tajima and Dawson 1. Key to their operation is the fact that unlike the superconducting ...