Plasma cutting has a tendency to throw up a lot of sparks, so most commercial offerings for plasma cutting tables include a water bath to catch all of the debris from the cutting process.

Affordable plasma cutters are becoming a popular step up from an angle grinder for cutting sheet metal in the home workshop, but cutting long straight lines can be laborious and less than accurate.

Plasma arc cutting (PAC) is a thermal cutting technique widely used in manufacturing applications such as shipbuilding, aerospace, fabrication, nuclear plants decommissioning, construction ...

The machine—which has insides made of tungsten and was boosted with a surge of 2 megawatts of power—was able to hold on to the hydrogen plasma at about 50 million °C (122 million °F ...

Canadian startup General Fusion has been working on its unique approach to producing clean energy through nuclear fusion for ...

“We’ve built 24 plasma injectors, created over 200,000 plasmas, and generated fusion neutrons from plasma compressions – de-risking LM26 and preparing us for this new chapter at General Fusion,” said ...

ONTARIO, Ore. — Ana Madera-Navarrete is recovering in the burn unit following a plasma-cutting incident late last month at Ontario High School. Several EMS and fire units were called to Ontario ...

The same substance that paints the sky with the Northern Lights also appears to enhance plant growth and insect defense, according to a new study. Food science and entomology researchers from the ...

The project began after Mahfuzur Rahman, assistant professor of food science, acquired a machine that produces cold plasma. Known as the fourth state of matter, plasma is an electrically charged ...