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Credit: Composite image by Elle Starkman / Solar image by NASA Goddard Media Studios Every day, the sun ejects large amounts of a hot particle soup known as plasma toward Earth where it can disrupt telecommunications satellites and damage electrical grids. Now, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton Universitys Department of Astrophysical Sciences have made a discovery that could lead to better predictions of this space weathe...

Machine assembly | First magnet in place When it travelled the ITER Itinerary last year, or during cold tests in the onsite winding facility, poloidal field coil #6 (PF6) felt rather large and massive. Although only 10 metres in diameter—compared to 24 metres for the largest of the six ring coils that circle the machine—the 330-tonne coil is particularly thick and bulky. But everything is relative. On Thursday 21 April when the coil was extracted from its support frame and lifted 25 metre...

AMUG Confirms Keynote Speaker and Innovators Showcase Honoree Share Article Jonathan Morris, M.D, director at Mayo Clinic, will take the stage for a keynote presentation on point-of-care manufacturing, and Hans Langer, Ph.D., chairman of EOS Group, will share his experiences and insights during the Innovators Showcase. Both Dr. Morris and Dr. Langer will take attendees through their multi-year journeys towards achieving success. Jonathan Morris (left), Mayo Clinic, and Hans Langer, EOS Group, a...

Caption: First row, left to right: Navid Azizan, Rodrigo Freitas, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Jack Hare. Second row, left to right: Samuel Hopkins, Michael Howland, Yoon Kim, Adrian Lozano-Duran, Kelly Metcalf Pate. Third row, left to right: Anand Natarajan, Jelena Notaros, Carlos Portela, Ashia Wilson, Sixian You. Previous image Next image The School of Engineering is welcoming 15 new faculty members to its departments, institutes, labs, and cent...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems will build a research and manufacturing campus campus in Devens, Mass. with the goal of bringing fusion energy to market

The TCV Tokamak at EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center © A. Herzog / EPFL The core of a fusion reactor is incredibly hot. Hydrogen that inevitably escapes from it must be cooled on its way to the wall, as otherwise, the reactor wall would be damaged. Researchers from the Dutch institute DIFFER and EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center have developed a strict measurement and control method for the cooling of very hot particles escaping from fusion plasmas. This milestone for fusion research is published in Nat...

Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University The energy of the future lies in the area of the controlled thermonuclear fusion. The scientific group from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), headed by Professor Vladimir Rozhansky, is directly involved in the establishment of the worlds largest experimental thermonuclear reactor ITER. Researchers discovered new effects, which affect the energy flow in the reactor. The theoretical predictions were confi...

I’m not a rocket scientist and I didn’t go to Princeton, but I’m interested in going to Mars if the trip was a lot shorter. That’s why the news of a Princeton physicist developing an engine based on the same principle as solar flares (which travel at the speed of light) that would shorten a... Read more »

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Technuter Truecaller announced that they have appointed Odd Bolin as their new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Odd will be joining the management team in Stockholm and overseeing the financial management and operations to support the company’s growth, and to prepare the company for an initial public offering (IPO.) This is the second senior hire the company has made in the past two months to strengthen the management team. Odd has extensive experience taking high growth companies public and ha...