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

The ability to collect this experimental data in very hot, dense, star-like plasma will help researchers validate and improve ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

China’s latest advance with its so‑called artificial sun has pushed fusion plasma into a regime many physicists long treated ...

At the heart of our sun, fusion is unfolding. As hydrogen atoms merge to form helium, they emit energy, producing the heat ...