Like Magic, Only Better. When it was first described in the 1920s by physicist Irvin Langmuir, plasma was said to be one of the fundamental states of matter, though not one that exists freely on ...

A team of engineers from Caltech have created a stable ring of plasma in open air, using just a high-pressure jet of water and a crystal plate. The technique could, in the long run, unlock the ...

It takes the place of TAE’s C-2U plasma generator, which maintained high-temperature plasma rings in confinement for a record-setting 5 milliseconds back in 2015.

An accretion disk is a ring of superheated plasma, or ionized gas, that spins around a black hole's event horizon, the boundary beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape.

Germany's Wendelstein 7-X stellarator has set a new benchmark for fusion reactors, bringing commercial, near-limitless clean ...

Wilmington, Delaware, United States, Oct. 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Transparency Market Research Inc. - The RF plasma generator market was valued at US$ 991 million in 2020. The market is ...

Plasma generator for better endurance. While flying slower helps conserve fuel and extend mission time, the reduced speed also hurts lift, especially when airflow starts to separate (break away ...

A spinning disk of plasma created in a lab has allowed scientists to bring the accretion disks around black holes down to Earth.

Saturn's doughnut-like ring current spins and is flattened into sheet by solar wind. ... He explained that mostof Saturn's ring current plasma comes from its ice-spewing moon Enceladus.