A research team from KAIST Nuclear and Quantum Engineering presents an AI assesser for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines ...

Hall thrusters are high-efficiency propulsion devices that use plasma, allowing for significant acceleration of satellites or spacecraft ... "This artificial intelligence technique can be applied not ...

Once a year, the Large Hadron Collider smashes lead ions. But how do scientists get a heavy metal into a particle accelerator ...

After a breakdown in US-Russia relations, Riken finds itself ahead of its rivals. And Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory chases element 120 ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak achieved a remarkable scientific milestone by maintaining steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for an impressive 1,066 seconds. Credit: ...

The James Beard Foundation today announced its semifinalist nominees for 2025, officially kicking off restaurant awards season across the country. Widely known as the “Oscars” of the food world, the ...

"Energy is power [multiplied by] time — so to get a given amount of energy from a beam, you either need very high power or you need to stay in the beam a long time." One such solution that was ...

Safely and prudently sending a manned mission that arrives and lands before Trump leaves office is possible. Every 26 months there are launch windows to send missions from Earth to Mars. SpaceX is ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The SMART device has successfully generated its first tokamak plasma, marking a significant step toward sustainable fusion energy. This spherical tokamak, with ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion. When you ...

Here’s how it works. China's "artificial sun" reactor has broken its own world record for maintaining super-hot plasma, marking another milestone in the long road towards near-limitless clean ...