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Scientists Control Plasma Bullets

Scientists Control Plasma Bullets

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (30) | comments 16

(PhysOrg.com) -- On the nanoscale, things aren’t always what they seem. What first looked like a continuous plasma jet has turned out to be a train of tiny, high-velocity plasma bullets. Using a camera with ...





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Cool plasma packs heat against biofilms

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 9

Though it looks like a tiny purple blowtorch, a pencil-sized plume of plasma on the tip of a small probe remains at room temperature as it swiftly dismantles tough bacterial colonies deep inside a human tooth. But it's not ...


Upping the power triggers an ordered helical plasma

Upping the power triggers an ordered helical plasma

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

If you keep twisting a straight elastic string, at some moment it starts kinking in a wild way. Something similar occurs when one increases the electrical current flowing in a magnetized plasma doughnut: it ...


HIV-1's 'hijacking mechanism' pinpointed by researchers

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital - along with colleagues at the University of Manitoba and the University of British Columbia ...


Signs of ideal surfing conditions spotted in ocean of solar wind

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Warwick have found what could be the signal of ideal wave "surfing" conditions for individual particles within the massive turbulent ocean of the solar wind. The discovery ...


With stimulus aid, scientists hope to mimic nature's dynamos

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the cosmos, all celestial objects - planets, stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies - have magnetic fields. On Earth, the magnetic field of our home planet is most easily observed in a compass where ...


Roadrunner supercomputer models nonlinear physics of high-power lasers

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion. This is the attempt to compress a target capsule containing isotopes of hydrogen with high-powered lasers to high enough pressure ...


High-performance plasmas may make reliable, efficient fusion power a reality

High-performance plasmas may make reliable, efficient fusion power a reality

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (40) | comments 47

In the quest to produce nuclear fusion energy, researchers from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have recently confirmed long-standing theoretical predictions that performance, efficiency and reliability ...


Scientists obtain clearer view of how eye lens proteins are sorted

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research reveals how proteins that are critical for the transparency of the eye lens are properly sorted and localized in membrane bilayers. The study, published by Cell Press in the November 3rd issue of Biophysical Jo ...


U.S. ITER awards contracts worth $33 million for materials for ITER's largest magnets

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. ITER Project Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded two contracts totaling $33.6 million for 8,270 km of niobium tin strand and 4,795 km of copper strand for the Toroidal Field Conductor, ...


Nuclear fusion research key to advancing computer chips

Nuclear fusion research key to advancing computer chips

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are adapting the same methods used in fusion-energy research to create extremely thin plasma beams for a new class of "nanolithography" required to make future computer chips.



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