Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

As drones survey forests, robots navigate warehouses and sensors monitor city streets, more of the world's decision-making is ...

At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary ...

A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...

A new study enhances hydrogen molecule predictions, achieving unprecedented precision in testing fundamental physics and ...

China's artificial sun breaks density limit that caused fusion experiments to fail, moving closer to clean energy.

BEIJING -- A novel experiment on the fundamental science of lithium-ion batteries has been carried out aboard China's ...

Scientists have become interested in energy enclosed at 100,000,000 ºC in the fourth state of matter, plasma, with the ...

For a long time, the Greenwald limit was accepted as a given and incorporated into fusion reactor engineering. The new work shows that precise control over how the plasma is created and interacts with ...

Lithium-ion batteries are a critical power source for modern space missions due to their high energy density, long life cycle, and safety. Research has increasingly focused on microscopic mechanisms, ...

China's Tiangong space station has been the setting for an innovative experiment on lithium-ion batteries, conducted by the three astronauts of the ...