Plasma—the electrically charged fourth state of matter—is at the heart of many important industrial processes, including ...

The plasma’s temperature and density help deflect and absorb the shockwaves from the explosion. In the patent illustration, the force field protects a military HMMWV, but the design is written ...

That kind of force field is technically feasible -- physics students last year determined that an electromagnetic field could by used to hold a plasma shield in place -- but it would likely also ...

“That firefighting foam has since been phased out by the Air Force.” Civilian researchers recently completed a two-week field demonstration of a specially-built plasma reactor at Wright ...

The US Air Force has plans to improve radio communication ... There are at least two major challenges. One is building a plasma generator small enough to fit on a CubeSat. Then there’s the ...

Now that we have that out of our systems, let's start by saying that unlike a Star Trek-style deflector, Boeing's plasma "shield ... be a technological tour de force. The idea is to harness ...

The moon exerts a previously unknown tidal force on the "plasma ocean ... doughnut-shaped blob of cool plasma that sits on top of Earth's magnetic field lines, just above the ionosphere, the ...