Choosing the best acoustic guitar for your personal needs is a tough one. With so many options on offer these days it’s not surprising that many find themselves faced with option paralysis when ...

Ion transport is the movement of ions across a membrane, passively through ion channels or actively through ion pumps such as symporters and antiporters. Animal toxins can modulate action ...

Interestingly, the spacecraft would use an innovative propulsion method: lightsails. These types of reflective sails use the pressure from lasers or starlight to propel spacecraft. These ultrathin ...

Aligned with global zero-emissions initiatives, Gospel has committed to purchasing 1,000 electric propulsion units from ACEL over five years under a binding Letter of Intent. A Clear Roadmap to ...

Researchers have proposed a new propulsion method that could make covering the vast distances required for interstellar missions feasible within a human lifetime. The fundamental challenge in ...

There are alternatives to chemical rockets, such as ion drives and solar sails ... candidate for this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket. First conceived of in ...

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, with hopes that the fuel could take humans to Mars in the not-too ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Simulations of electric ion thrusters have been validated through experiments, addressing challenges in predicting thruster lifespan due to chamber wall effects ...

On the face of things, not much, but after seeing [Zachary Tong]’s latest video on liquid metal ion thrusters, we see that they seem to have a lot more in common than we’d initially thought.

On Jan. 11, an airborne imaging spectrometer managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory flew over Los Angeles County to survey the damage from the historic fires. It captured images of charred ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will soon start getting back to normal operations after weathering the raging L.A. fires. JPL lies at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains just north of Los ...