If a plasma comes in contact with a solid, under certain circumstances the surface is changed fundamentally and permanently. Researchers have now discovered a surprising effect, in which the ...

When high-voltage electricity breaks out in open air, it rips through the atmosphere, forming chaotic, branching fingers of ...

Plasma is usually introduced as the stuff of stars and fusion reactors, a searing soup of charged particles that has little in common with the ice in a household freezer. Yet new experiments show that ...

Solid, liquid and gas: The three basic states of matter we know, but there’s a fourth that’s WAY more common than you might think. This week is all about plasma. * We’re not focusing on the kind you ...

A neutral plasma has been cooled to the record-breaking low temperature of 50 mK by Thomas Langin, Grant Gorman and Thomas Killian at Rice University in the US. In the future, ultracold plasmas could ...