Plasma, the electrically charged state of matter that lights up stars and neon signs, has just revealed a subtle effect that ...

In a few picoseconds (trillionths of a second), a small, thin piece of copper momentarily becomes dense plasma, specifically a state called warm dense matter, warm being a relative term – the metal is ...

Seeking to achieve fusion energy, research on high-temperature and high-density plasma confinement by magnetic fields is being conducted around the world. In a magnetically confined plasma, as the ...

People are familiar with three states of matter of solid, liquid and gas. There is also a fourth state of matter, called plasma. It was first identified in a laboratory in the late 1870s by Sir ...

Scientists use the word plasma to name the state of matter in which most or all of the atoms are ionized. This fourth state of matter is found in space, in plasma TVs, in lightning, and elsewhere. An ...