Helicon Thruster, Smart Bandage, Stress IBS

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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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
- 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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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:08.6	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff.
0:11.0	I'm Nate.
0:12.0	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping it for the first time, welcome to
0:14.7	curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:18.0	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how new technology
0:22.0	is making faster and more efficient rockets,
0:24.8	a new bandage that might be able to heal wounds faster than the body,
0:28.4	and how we've seen some new connections between the brain and the gut
0:32.0	through a study of irritable bowel syndrome.
0:34.0	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:37.0	For years, science fiction has been full of stories of people traveling to other worlds.
0:43.0	And that's something we've been working on,
0:45.2	but other worlds are really far away.
0:47.4	And so far, none of our methods of transportation
0:50.5	can really get us too far out of our own little orbit
0:54.6	range we made it to the moon but we haven't really gotten any farther at least not
0:58.4	with man's ships and a big part of that is the limitations of our fuel system.
1:03.9	But there's been a recent breakthrough that might expand the range of how far we can travel,
1:09.5	and it's some pretty exciting stuff.
1:11.4	Okay, so a new form of travel, I'm interested, I'm curious about this, how are they doing this?
1:16.5	All right, so the general idea of how the travel works, with you know, a rocket booster pushing us in a little capsule that's the same but it's the
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