The machines at their center, called tokamaks, have evolved from experimental curiosities into instruments capable of ...

An Auburn University study finds that magnetic fields can guide electrons in plasma much like traffic signals, giving ...

Scientists at CERN, together with MIT physicists, have found strong evidence that the universe’s first “primordial soup” acted like a liquid. They discovered that when quarks zoom through this plasma, ...

Plasma happens when gas gets heated to a very high temperature and the atoms lose their electrons. Find out more about this state of matter. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...