Scientists at a U.S. government plasma lab have discovered a missing component in nuclear fusion equations that could speed up development of a working reactor. Specifically, the discovery could ...

The Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 8, No. 1/2 (WINTER AND SPRING 1978), pp. 323-331 (9 pages) A nonlinear evolution equation is derived for Alfvén waves propagating along the magnetic ...

Very soon after the Big Bang, the universe enjoyed a brief phase where quarks and gluons roamed freely, not yet joined up into hadrons such as protons, neutrons and mesons. This state, called a ...

A promising technique for tracking boost-glide hypersonic vehicles involves detecting radio waves emitted by plasma in the wake. Passive detection would be a valuable capability, since existing ...