Smashing atomic nuclei together at mind-bending speeds recreates the fiery conditions of the early universe and scientists ...

It is plasma, a lively, tricky, often dangerous state of matter whose distinctive characteristic is that its particles are electrically charged. Scientists call it “the fourth state of matter ...

Nature does not give up her secrets easily.” Such are the sentiments of NIF Senior Scientist John Lindl, summarizing the ...

The universe has two kinds of matter. There is invisible dark matter, known only because of its gravitational effects on a ...

An international team of scientists has published a new report that moves toward a better understanding of the behavior of some of the heaviest particles in the universe under extreme conditions, ...

An international team of scientists has published a new report that moves towards a better understanding of the behaviour of ...

A group of scientists from Italy was able to accurately describe the behavior of quark-gluon plasma in the first moments after the Big Bang and the fo ...

Scientists are pushing the bounds further each and every day. Now, an Italian team created supersolid light, which could have ...

Bright flashes of enigmatic radio waves have helped illuminate some of the missing matter in the universe, astronomers say in ...

Plasma—the electrically charged fourth state of matter—is at the heart of many important industrial processes, including those used to make computer chips and coat materials. Simulating those ...