This new jet engine uses plasma. Plasma is the fourth state of matter, after solid liquid, and gas. It already exists on the surface of the sun and in lightning, but humans can also create it.

“Our results demonstrate that a microwave air plasma jet engine could be a viable alternative to conventional fossil fuel engines,” Tang said. While it may take years before you see plasma ...

A 1-kilogram steel ball can maintain flight as the plasma expands rapidly from the extremely hot ionization chamber environment. The thrust produced matches jet engine performance, which illustrates ...

Power mechanics students at Jefferson County Joint Vocational School got revved up after constructing a jet engine model in ...

When [Jay Bowles] demoed his first-generation ion thruster on Plasma Channel ... more like a miniature jet engine than anything that had come before it. Optimizations would need to be made ...