Plasma interactions as a research area investigates the fundamental processes governing how plasmas interact with fields, particles, and material boundaries in laboratory, space, and astrophysical environments. It encompasses collisional and collisionless regimes, wave–particle and wave–wave interactions, magnetic reconnection, sheath formation at surfaces, and energy and momentum transfer between charged and neutral species. This field integrates kinetic and fluid (MHD, two-fluid, gyrokinetic) descriptions, advanced diagnostics, and numerical simulations to study phenomena such as turbulence, transport, instabilities, and nonlinear structure formation, with implications for fusion devices, space weather, propulsion, and high-energy-density plasma systems.
Australian researchers have developed a high‑performance coating made from peppermint essential oil that can be applied to the surfaces of many commonly used medical devices, offering a safer way to protect patients from ...
Bio & Medicine
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Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led research team has measured the dynamics and ever-changing "shell" of hot gas from where the solar wind ...
Space Exploration
Jan 30, 2026
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New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the maelstrom of interacting magnetic structures around city-sized neutron stars in the moments before they ...
Astronomy
Jan 29, 2026
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The dazzling lights of the aurora are created when high-energy particles from space collide with Earth's atmosphere. While scientists have long understood this process, one big mystery remained: What powers the electric fields ...
Planetary Sciences
Jan 28, 2026
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The CANMILK project is developing a plasma-based system suitable for direct operation in barns to reduce methane emissions from livestock. The goal is to capture dilute methane present in barn air and convert it into CO₂ ...
Biotechnology
Nov 25, 2025
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Increasing the surface area when plasma and water interact could help scale up a technology that destroys contaminants such as PFAS, detergents and microbial contaminants in drinking water, new research from the University ...
Plasma Physics
Nov 10, 2025
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A team of researchers from the Max Born Institute (MBI) in Berlin and DESY in Hamburg has demonstrated a plasma lens capable of focusing attosecond pulses. This breakthrough substantially increases the attosecond power available ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 5, 2025
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Researchers Ni Guohua and Associate Researcher Sun Hongmei from the Institute of Plasma Physics, together with Associate Professor Wang Dong from Anhui Medical University, have developed a novel two-step plasma strategy to ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 5, 2025
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For the first time, researchers have found that the number of electrical discharges on a spacecraft directly correlates to the number of electrons in the surrounding environment—information that could help scientists better ...
Space Exploration
Sep 1, 2025
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In a scientific first, South Korean scientists have provided experimental proof of "multi-scale coupling" in plasma, where interactions between phenomena at the microscopic level and macroscopic level influence each other. ...
