Ratu founded Wellington-based OpenStar Technologies in 2021 with the goal of developing an efficient nuclear fusion reactor.

A new type of plasma limiter is being developed which can turn on in less than 1 ns. The approach taken is to initiate streamer breakdown via a micron radius needle tip. Images were taken of the gap ...

Spatially confined non-equilibrium plasmas at vacuum and atmospheric pressure in the dimensions from a few microns to one millimeter are a promising approach to the generation and maintenance of ...

Tokamak Gets One More Step Closer to Completion, With Progress in Its Super Magnetic System The scope of nuclear fusion power ...

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has unveiled an exciting breakthrough: the discovery of an entirely new type of plasma wave near ...

Chinese radar has detected mysterious plasma bubbles hovering over Egypt’s Pyramids from 5,000 miles away.

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

A school gym-sized facility tucked away at the University of Michigan is quietly pushing the boundaries of what lasers can do ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has collected data that evidences the theoretical “helicity barrier,” where turbulent dissipation behaves strangely.

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...

Chinese radar detects an ionospheric "plasma bubbles" over Egypt from Hainan, revealing key advances in global monitoring of ...