It took a lot of tweaking — and a lot of MOSFETs — to get the candle to produce a stable flame. But once it did, the results were striking. The plasma coming off the breakout point on the ...

The result is a faint blue glowing flame that’s barely above room temperature but still has all the reactive properties of a plasma. The video shows all the details of construction and shows the ...

Astronauts call re-entry the most terrifying moment of space travel, as they witness their spacecraft surrounded by blazing plasma flames at hypersonic speeds. The spacecraft hurtles through the ...