Three more nations offer to host $4bn fusion experiment
France, Japan and Spain offer to host the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
Read article: Fusion-in-a-bubble sparks controversy
Fusion-in-a-bubble sparks controversy
Evidence of nuclear fusion in a sonoluminescence experiment is dismissed by other scientists
Read article: Sound waves size up sonoluminescence
Sound waves size up sonoluminescence
A new technique could help to explain how some imploding bubbles emit light
Read article: Ultracold plasmas come of age
Ultracold plasmas come of age
During the past decade, the availability of simple, effective methods for laser cooling and trapping has enabled enormous advances in the experimental study of atoms in their ground state. Until quite...
Read article: A strange quark plasma
A strange quark plasma
Experiments have recreated the conditions that existed in the early universe before the protons and neutrons that make up the world today had formed
Plasma forms new forms of matter
Colloidal plasmas contain three different components – electrons, ions and charged microspheres. Although these unusual plasmas can be studied in the laboratory, researchers have only been able ...
New director for Max Planck plasma lab
The IPP runs a tokamak called ASDEX and is also building a stellarator fusion device known as Wendelstein 7-X at it lab in Greifswald. If ITER is built in Japan, Bradshaw says he will lobby for Garchi...
Lasers fuel path to fusion
The clusters were produced by expanding a deuterium gas jet into a vacuum. A laser beam focussed near the top of the plume heats the clusters, causing them to explode. This creates a small plasma of h...
New light on plasma properties
Previous experiments found it difficult to measure plasma spectra because the high temperatures inside the plasma caused the spectral lines to blur. The Weizmann team solved the problem by adding oxyg...
