The dream of a real lightsaber has always sounded like a physics joke, not an engineering brief. Yet a retractable plasma blade that can slice through steel has forced a small Canadian workshop to ...

The first time a real retractable plasma blade flared to life on camera, it looked less like a fan project and more like a ...

Fusion energy is being developed as a solution to global energy problems. In particular, the magnetic confinement method, in which ultra-high temperature plasma is confined by a magnetic field, is the ...

Fusion energy has long promised the world a clean, nearly limitless source of power. But despite the excitement, real-world reactors must meet intense demands—both in performance and safety. Inside ...

Realization of digital-twin control by connecting Large Helical Device (LHD) (Toki, Gifu) located at NIFS and the Plasma Simulator supercomputer (Rokkasho, Aomori), jointly procured by NIFS and QST, ...

(Nanowerk News) An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) successfully conducted in-situ studies with a plasma generated inside a scanning electron microscope ...

Scientists achieve the first real-time nanoscale observation of iron formation with hydrogen plasma, opening a path to cleaner, energy-efficient steel production. (Nanowerk News) A research team at ...

Image of digital twin control, in which real plasma is controlled by virtual plasma reproduced on a computer. In this research, we developed a digital twin control system that can estimate optimal ...