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Using artificial intelligence to speed up and improve the most computationally-intensive aspects of plasma physics in fusion

The intricate dance of atoms fusing and releasing energy has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, human ingenuity and artificial intelligence are coming together at the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...
New Atlas

Australian dark matter detector joins the hunt with unique advantage

The first dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere has been officially opened. The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) is built in a disused gold mine in Australia, and the aim is to ...
Louisiana Tech University

$200,000 endowment honors the curiosity and global impact of Physics alumnus Dr. Billy Bonner

A $200,000 unrestricted physics endowment to the Louisiana Tech University College of Engineering and Science honors the life ...

Going further with fusion, together

At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer connected to a control room 3,500 miles away in Oxford, England. Years of ...
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Johns Hopkins APL Expertise Supports New Navy Jammer

The Next Generation Jammer features high-power amplifier technology and an extended range. APL provided technical insight and ...
NJBIZ

Princeton Plasma Physics Lab uses AI machine learning to advance fusion research

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory published a new paper last week, marking significant results from the lab’s artificial intelligence research. In the paper, published in Nature Communications, PPPL ...
Phys.org

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Last year, a study led by planetary scientist Richard Cartwright at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, proposed that deposits of carbon dioxide ice and other ...
University of Delaware

Physics Help Center

The Physics Help Center, located in Sharp Lab 101B, is a place where students in introductory physics and astronomy courses can come for assistance with homework, studying, lab reports and other ...

Plasma “Fireballs” at CERN May Explain the Universe’s Missing Light

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...
Nature

Laser Physics Laboratory (LPL)

Laser Physics Laboratory (LPL) has the following research output in the current window (1 October 2024 - 30 September 2025) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to view a list of articles representing ...
SpaceNews

ESA Director of Science visits Applied Physics Laboratory

Following the disappointing outcome, for science funding, of the recent ESA Council of Ministers, the ESA Executive is exploring all avenues of increasing the science throughput of the ESA Science ...