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In an unparalleled analytical effort, more than 1,000 undergraduate students helped physicists address an outstanding mystery about the Sun’s atmosphere and may have upended a popularly held theory in the process.
MIT researcher Alex Tinguely has contributed to a fusion breakthrough with the JET tokamak at the Culham Center for Fusion Energy, leading a group that uses a specially designed antenna to measure Alfvén waves. The measurements can help researchers understand how these waves can degrade fusion performance in devices that are fueled by a mix of deuterium and tritium.