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ITER NEWSLINE 58

"Shields Up!"

The Star Trek Enterprise ... (Click to view larger version...)
The Star Trek Enterprise ...
"The idea is really like in Star Trek, when Scottie turns on a shield to protect the starship Enterprise from proton beams—it's almost identical really,'' Bob Bingham of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford says. Their study on how to protect astronauts from a dangerous source of space radiation, thus lifting a major doubt clouding the dream to send humans to Mars, was recently published in a journal by Britain's Institute of Physics. It draws on numerical simulation that is also used in nuclear fusion, in which a hot plasma is kept in place by a powerful magnetic field.

Read the full paper here ...

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