The simple plasma ball – it graces science museums and classrooms all around the world. It shares a place with the Van de Graaf generator, with the convenient addition of spectacular plasma rays that ...

Physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison built a swirling orb of plasma they’re calling a “miniature Sun” — so they can study how stars work up close. The mini-sun, complete with its own ...

MADISON - The sun's solar wind affects nearly everything in the solar system. It can disrupt the function of Earth's satellites and creates the lights of the auroras. A new study by University of ...

[Discrete Electronics Guy] sends in his short tutorial on building a high voltage power supply from simple things. The circuit is a classic, but we love the resourcefulness shown. The ignition coil ...

The coronal mass ejection hints at what our sun may be capable of. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A baby version of the sun ...

Ball lightning – the mysterious slow-moving spheres of light occasionally seen during thunderstorms – has been created in the lab. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics and the ...

Scientists have built a miniature model of the Sun that could protect us from the real version. The "big red plasma ball", created in a lab, could allow researchers to finally understand the ...

Turns out that when the Sun spits plasma at the Earth, the results can be beautiful. Earlier this month, when a sunspot shot plasma at Earth for the second time in two weeks, astronomers knew it was ...

The sun is a roiling, boiling ball of plasma, constantly churning and turning itself inside out as ropes of magnetic-field lines tangle and break at its surface to release tremendous amounts of energy ...

Epic Games had big news to share in May when it revealed an Unreal Engine 5 tech demo running on PlayStation 5, effectively showcasing the PS5's first gameplay video. But for all the takeaways ...