Plasma research drives sustainable societal progress in economic utilisation of space through understanding of safe conditions for spaceflight, and in clean energy through fusion technology. The most important outstanding topic of research across all plasma disciplines (space physics, plasma astrophysics and fusion plasmas) is to understand how electron and ion kinetic physics emerges to form large-scale, unpredictable eruptions that occur in the Earth's magnetosphere, at the Sun, more distant stars, and in fusion devices. XC-global presents a recent breakthrough innovation: Using explainable physics-informed Artificial Intelligence (AI) coupled to the world's most accurate global space environment simulation Vlasiator, it is possible to describe full scale coupling from electron to global scales in the near-Earth space for the first time. XC-global combines space physics with high-performance computing (HPC) and AI to advance breakthrough understanding of space plasmas.

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