At night, charged particles from the sun caught by Earth's magnetosphere rain down into the atmosphere. The impacting ...

Scientists have used a pair of lasers and a supersonic sheet of gas to accelerate electrons to high energies in less than a ...

Then, when conditions are right, specialized channels in the plasma membrane open and allow rapid ion movement into or out of the cell, and this movement creates an electrical signal. But what do ...

In addition, magnetized laser-plasma interactions are important in magneto-inertial fusion concepts, which strive to achieve fusion with the combined advantages of magnetic and inertial confinements.

One interesting consequence of asymptotic freedom is that at some temper- ature, the interaction should ... The properties of this quark-gluon plasma are currently investigated using experiments at ...

In the near future we can expect to see many other groups harness the benefits of plasma optics across the rich field of ultra-intense laser interactions ... testing novel ion-acceleration concepts.