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IMAGE: Rice University graduate student Grant Gorman at work in Rice s Ultracold Atoms and Plasmas Lab. view more
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HOUSTON - (March 1, 2021) - Rice University physicists have discovered a way to trap the world s coldest plasma in a magnetic bottle, a technological achievement that could advance research into clean energy, space weather and astrophysics. To understand how the solar wind interacts with the Earth, or to generate clean energy from nuclear fusion, one has to understand how plasma a soup of electrons and ions behaves in a magnetic field, said Rice Dean of Natural Sciences Tom Killian, the corresponding author of a published study about the work in