{"id":3925791,"date":"2026-05-05T11:09:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/understanding-how-lasers-can-rapidly-magnetize-fusion-plasmas\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:09:33","slug":"understanding-how-lasers-can-rapidly-magnetize-fusion-plasmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/understanding-how-lasers-can-rapidly-magnetize-fusion-plasmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding how lasers can rapidly magnetize fusion plasmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The mechanism that can cause a rapidly expanding plasma\u2014the superhot state of matter harnessed in fusion energy systems\u2014to spontaneously generate its own magnetic fields was identified through a new set of simulations. This improves our understanding of naturally occurring plasmas in our universe and advances the development of fusion systems based on an approach called direct-drive inertial fusion.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-lasers-rapidly-magnetize-fusion-plasmas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mechanism that can cause a rapidly expanding plasma\u2014the superhot state of matter harnessed in fusion energy systems\u2014to spontaneously generate its own magnetic fields was identified through a new set of simulations. This improves our understanding of naturally occurring plasmas in our universe and advances the development of fusion systems based on an approach called [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}