The veteran physicist and aerospace engineer shares insights into the challenges and breakthroughs in microwave plasma ...

Researchers in China have demonstrated a prototype device that uses microwave air plasmas for jet propulsion, an advance that could one day replace fossil fuel combustion engines.

A microwave-generated plasma shield that could help aircraft evade radar or protect it from WMD attacks was granted a patent today. The "pseudo surface microwave produced plasma shielding system ...

Microwave discharges represent a cutting‐edge method for generating plasma by utilising high-frequency electromagnetic energy to ionise gases, thereby facilitating precise energy deposition and ...

This is just the 6th grade science class demonstration of what a plasma is, and really it’s only a few dissociated water, oxygen, and nitrogen molecules poofing in a microwave.

• Ever see those YouTube videos where a grape explodes in a microwave? Physicist Aaron Slepkov did. • His team set out to figure out the true reason for the plasma fire phenomenon by testing ...

For 20 years, people have been putting grapes in the microwave to watch them explode. But there is some real science behind this internet phenomenon. If you don’t know about grapes in the ...

Such plasma-assisted combustion can potentially give an efficiency boost to high-performance aircraft. The technology could help military jets fly at high altitudes, passenger planes and unmanned ...

Computing How to turn a kitchen microwave into a plasma-etching device Plasmas have never been easy to create or exploit. But now you can make them in your own kitchen.

The grapes act like two condensed balls of intense microwave energy and when they touch the sparks and plasma fly. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox.

If you have a grape, a knife, and a microwave you don’t mind potentially ruining, you can make plasma at home. (Warning: this may ruin your microwave.) The process is simple: you cut a single ...