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It was believed that Hall thrusters, an efficient kind of electric propulsion widely used in orbit, need to be large to produce a lot of thrust. Now, a new study from the University of Michigan suggests that smaller Hall thrusters can…

Gizmore has launched a new smartwatch – GizFit Plasma– in the Indian market. The smartwatch, as per the company, is the first smartwatch in the category to feature a 1.9-inch display. GizFit Plasma smartwatch: Price, colours and…

Canadian Blood Services says it’s in need of blood and plasma donors after the winter storm disrupted donations over the holidays. Severe wind, snowfall and icy conditions that hit many parts of the country meant that about 10 per…

Many achievements in science are called breakthroughs. The announcement this week that scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in the U.S. achieved a breakthrough nuclear fusion reaction,…

Tammy Ma was about to board a plane at the San Francisco International Airport when she got the call of a lifetime. She’s a plasma physicist at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world’s largest and most energetic laser. An…

The Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur is organising the 37th National Symposium on Plasma Science & Technology (PLASMA-2022) from December 12 to 14 in collaboration with the Plasma Science Society of…

A research group has demonstrated that spontaneously excited plasma waves may be the solution to a long-associated problem with magnetic nozzle plasma thrusters, turning conventional thinking on its head. Details of their research were…

Enabling & Support 07/12/2022 122 views 4 likes An innovative ESA-backed instrument to sample the space weather environment in-situ is set to join the International Space Station. Norway’s…

Extremely intense light pulses generated by free-electron lasers (FELs) are versatile tools in research. Particularly in the X-ray range, they can be deployed to analyze the details of atomic structures of a wide variety of materials and to…

If one particle accelerator alone is not enough to achieve the desired result, why not combine two accelerators? An international team led by physicists at the Centre for Advanced Laser Applications (CALA) at LMU Munich has implemented this…