plasma
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The researchers measured more than 7,000 proteins across plasma samples collected over time.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Solar prominences are enormous structures of glowing plasma that extend outward from the Sun's surface and are often shaped by powerful magnetic fields.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Navantia has already made substantial investments in Belfast, including an expansion to the fabrication hall and installing plasma cutting equipment.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Those torches, set within a spinning head, soon quieten down as they produce a stream of super-heated plasma reaching 27,000C - significantly hotter than the surface of the Sun.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
It builds body proteins, including some essential elements of blood plasma concerned with blood-clotting.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
To avoid creating and managing radioactive waste, TAE wants to use a fuel that requires far hotter plasmas than other fusion companies aim for, posing a bigger physics challenge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory creates such plasmas by directing 192 powerful laser beams onto hydrogen-containing targets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
Knowing how steep a pedestal can be before instabilities occur could help researchers find ways to optimize plasmas for fusion reactions based on the proportions of the tokamak.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
In science, and in plasmas, the most interesting physics happens at the boundaries.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024
Even though natural plasmas are rare on Earth—other than lightning or the northern lights—man-made plasmas are everywhere.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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