Tag Archives: plasma
Microsoft blood bot helps recovered COVID-19 patients donate plasma
Scientists confirm that plasma ‘sloshes’ around in galaxy clusters
For the first time, scientists have observed signs of plasma "flowing, splashing and sloshing" in a galaxy cluster. This kind of motion has been predicted, but it was only theoretical. Now, with data on how the plasma moves, researchers hope to disco...
A new blood test could indicate multiple conditions with one sample
A new blood test could use a single plasma sample to assess health and predict the likelihood of developing a range of diseases. Thanks to Theranos, this may sound familiar, but unlike that debacle, this proof-of-concept is backed by research publish...
NASA ramps up its efforts to understand space weather
This week, NASA selected three proposals for missions that could help us better understand the Sun-driven space weather that occurs near Earth. Space weather, like solar flares, can impact spacecraft and astronauts, and it has the potential to disabl...
Scientists discover ‘Terminator’ tsunamis on the Sun’s surface
Our Sun is quite literally a hotbed of activity. Scientists are learning more about our star's solar cycle, in which its magnetic field flips and its north and south poles swap approximately every 11 years. Little is known about what causes this dram...
Shrimp-inspired robot claw could punch through rock
Shrimp may be small, but some of them can pack quite a wallop. One of the pistol shrimp's claws, for instance, delivers such an explosive amount of force that it creates a shockwave of superhot plasma that can take out prey or create impromptu shelt...
NASA Records Weird Sound of Plasma Moving from Saturn to its Moon Enceladus
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected a surprisingly powerful and dynamic interaction of plasma waves moving from Saturn to its rings and its moon Enceladus. It is the first detection of its kind...
NASA Records Weird Sound of Plasma Moving from Saturn to its Moon Enceladus
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected a surprisingly powerful and dynamic interaction of plasma waves moving from Saturn to its rings and its moon Enceladus. It is the first detection of its kind...
Stanford’s new lab could make particle accelerators 1,000 times smaller
Particle accelerators have proven vital to understanding subatomic physics, but current technology tends to make them... rather large. And Stanford is determined to address that. SLAC has started assembling a new location, FACET-II (Facility for Adva...