In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists have performed the first global simulations of monster shocks—some of the strongest shocks in the universe—revealing how these extreme ...

Though plasma is the most common state of matter in the universe, it doesn’t get as much love as its gaseous, solid, and liquid counterparts. For most of us, plasmas seem like something exotic and ...

A plasma experiment succeeded in twisting light-like waves, and revealed a new, previously unknown rule of extreme physics.

Inside a donut-shaped vacuum chamber in Hefei, China, superheated plasma recently did something it was not supposed to do: it stayed calm. Researchers running the Experimental Advanced Superconducting ...

A new spin on the magnetic compression of plasmas could improve materials science, nuclear fusion research, X-ray generation and laboratory astrophysics, research led by the University of Michigan ...

Picture a spacecraft returning to Earth after a long journey. The vehicle slams into the planet’s atmosphere at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. A shockwave erupts. Molecules in the air are ripped apart ...

A new spin on the magnetic compression of plasmas could improve materials science, nuclear fusion research, X-ray generation and laboratory astrophysics. A new spin on the magnetic compression of ...