The venerable Voyager spacecrafts are now nearly 50 years old, and having headed out beyond the orbit of Pluto and into interstellar space, the pair are the most distant man-made objects in the ...

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Nuclear fusion, which operates on the same principle that powers the sun, is expected to become a sustainable energy source ...

Plasma happens when gas gets heated to a very high temperature and the atoms lose their electrons. Find out more about this state of matter. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

Increasing the surface area when plasma and water interact could help scale up a technology that destroys contaminants such ...

Ninety-nine percent of the universe is an invisible soup of the fourth state of matter, plasma. In a paper published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, researchers investigated this ...

Solid, liquid and gas: The three basic states of matter we know, but there’s a fourth that’s WAY more common than you might think. This week is all about plasma. * We’re not focusing on the kind you ...

New fusion simulations of the inside of a tokamak reveal the ideal spot for a 'cave' with flowing liquid lithium is near the bottom by the center stack, as the evaporating metal particles should land ...

Researchers have experimentally generated high-density relativistic electron-positron pair-plasma beams by producing two to three orders of magnitude more pairs than previously reported. Black holes ...

The experiment at CERN produced pairs of electron and positron beams, propagating into an ambient plasma. The international ...

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President Trump’s announcement that his administration would approve the emergency use of convalescent plasma in patients suffering from COVID-19 has put the government out of step with scientists who ...