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 ...

Scientists are developing a new space propulsion system that uses water as fuel, promising a more sustainable way to explore ...

A research team presents an AI assessor for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of satellites and space probes.

CSL Seqirus, the vaccination segment, was affected by low influenza vaccination rates in the US, dragging down overall ...

John Ross Bowie is poised to reprise the role of Caltech plasma physicist and string theorist Barry Kripke in a spinoff of ...

A group of scientists has developed special CO2-derived carbon nanotubes that can generate sustained plasma almost instantly ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) nuclear fusion reactor maintained a steady, highly confined loop of plasma — the high-energy fourth state of matter — for 1,066 seconds ...

Engineers developed an engine prototype which could reach unprecedented speeds, cutting down interplanetary travel time.

supports the case that these collisions create small specks of quark-gluon plasma, a form of matter that permeated the early universe. Physicists originally thought that collisions of smaller ions ...

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), an Aided Institute of Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India Bhat, Near Indira Bridge Gandhinagar, Gujarat -382 428, has invited applications for Summer ...