{"id":235665,"date":"2026-04-21T22:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/powerful-lasers-reveal-how-matter-becomes-plasma-in-trillionths-of-a-second"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:17:25","slug":"powerful-lasers-reveal-how-matter-becomes-plasma-in-trillionths-of-a-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/powerful-lasers-reveal-how-matter-becomes-plasma-in-trillionths-of-a-second","title":{"rendered":"Powerful Lasers Reveal How Matter Becomes Plasma in Trillionths of a Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/powerful-lasers-reveal-how-matter-becomes-plasma-in-trillionths-of-a-second.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ultrafast lasers tracked plasma formation and ionization in copper with picosecond precision. Results show rapid ion growth and decay, aiding fusion research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultrafast lasers tracked plasma formation and ionization in copper with picosecond precision. Results show rapid ion growth and decay, aiding fusion research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}