In the universe, thermonuclear fusion is a common reaction: it is the source of energy for stars. On Earth, producing energy ...

PSR B1937+21 is a millisecond pulsar located in the direction of the constellation Vulpecula, renowned for its astonishing rotation speed of 642 revolutions per second. Since its discovery in 1982, it ...

The key test passed by sPHENIX to prove it is ready to measure the properties of quark-gluon plasma is called a "standard ...

A decade in the making, this upgraded detector will explore the properties of the quark-gluon plasma that formed a millionth ...

A new and powerful particle detector just passed a critical test in its goal to decipher the ingredients of the early ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The University of ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last around a millisecond and in doing so encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma which permeates our Universe, providing insights into magnetic fields and gas ...

The sPHENIX detector is the latest experiment at RHIC. It is designed to record the products of high-speed collisions between ...

Using measurements of the four ESA’s Cluster satellites, a study published this week in Nature Physics shows pioneering experimental evidence of magnetic reconnection also in turbulent ‘plasma’ around ...

Only recently have scientists realized that most of the universe is neither gaseous, liquid or solid. It is plasma, a lively, tricky, often dangerous state of matter whose distinctive characteristic ...