plasma
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The Sun is constantly spewing out matter and charged particles, sometimes unleashing full-blown solar storms that shoot out giant explosions of plasma and other matter.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Large clouds of plasma in the upper atmosphere can produce what researchers call the "bulk escape" of atmospheric ions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
At ultrarelativistic energies, the nuclei pass through each other so quickly that they pull the newly created plasma into brief, intense acceleration pulses.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
A research team led by Fudan University physicists Yu-Gang Ma and Xu-Guang Huang set out to map how acceleration forms and changes inside quark-gluon plasma.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
The centaur pointed to a live feed from the Eurosat, which was displayed on a large plasma screen.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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
"Dusty plasmas are like tiny particles in a vacuum box," said Bhavesh Ramkorun, lead author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2026
This finding challenges decades of assumptions about how tokamak plasmas behave at high density.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 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
Unlike metal plates, plasmas could be made easily with a bolt of electricity, according to Puthoff, and instead of having to pry the plates apart again, the plasma “ash” is discarded.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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