"Star Trek" Shield May Protect Astronauts

Tuesday, November 4, 2008 - 16:42 in Astronomy & Space

A magnetic deflector field may someday repel harmful radiation away from spacecraft traveling to other planets and the moon, a new laboratory experiment shows.

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