Today we discuss how new technology is making faster and more efficient rockets, a new bandage that might be able to heal wounds faster than the body, and how we’ve seen some new connections between the brain and the gut through a study of Irritable Bowel Syndrome. 

Helicon Thruster 

• “Can plasma instability in fact be the savior for magnetic nozzle plasma thrusters” by Staff Writers
  • https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Can_plasma_instability_in_fact_be_the_savior_for_magnetic_nozzle_plasma_thrusters_999.html
• “Wave-driven electron inward transport in a magnetic nozzle” by Kazunori Takahashi, Christine Charles & Rod W. Boswell
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24202-9
• “PLASMA PROPULSION DISCOVERY COULD HERALD A ‘NEW ERA OF SPACE EXPLORATION’” by MICAH HANKS
  • https://thedebrief.org/plasma-propulsion-discovery-could-herald-a-new-era-of-space-exploration/
• “How Plasma Rockets Work” By Meisa Salaita
  • rockets.htm#:~:text=Plasma%20rockets%20accelerate%20gradually%20and,rocket%20%5Bsource%3A%20Verhovek%5D">https://science.howstuffworks.com/plasma-rockets.htm#:~:text=Plasma%20rockets%20accelerate%20gradually%20and,rocket%20%5Bsource%3A%20Verhovek%5D.
• “New Plasma Thruster Concept Could Make Space Missions 10x Faster” by Rupendra Brahambhatt
  • https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/physicist-designed-a-plasma-thruster-that-could-make-space-travel-10-times-faster

Smart Bandage 

• “Wireless smart bandage provides new insights on healing chronic wounds” by Andrew Myers
  • https://cheme.stanford.edu/wireless-smart-bandage-provides-new-insights-healing-chronic-wounds
• “Wireless, closed-loop, smart bandage with integrated sensors and stimulators for advanced wound care and accelerated healing” by Yuanwen Jiang et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01528-3

Stress IBS

• “Repeated Psychological Stress is Linked with Irritable Bowel Syndrome-like Symptoms” by Tokyo University of Science
  • https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/mediarelations/archive/20221107_8752.html
• “Repeated psychological stress, chronic vicarious social defeat stress, evokes irritable bowel syndrome-like symptoms in mice” by Toshinori Yoshioka et al.
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2022.993132/full

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