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 ...

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 ...

Physicists at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, have used supercomputer simulations to predict a specific ...

For as long as scientists have been trying to understand the behavior of the electrically charged fourth state of matter ...