How Imperial beat Oxbridge — and the secrets to winning a place
The London university now trails only MIT in the global rankings. Its students are prized for their employability but competition to study there is fierce
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The London university now trails only MIT in the global rankings. Its students are prized for their employability but competition to study there is fierce
A spinning disk of plasma created in a lab has allowed scientists to bring the accretion disks around black holes down to Earth.
Plasma accretion disk around black holes recreated in the lab
Scientists smashed plasma jets together to create artificial accretion disks that could help reveal how black holes grow.
MIT PhD student Rishabh Datta is gathering measurements of a laboratory-created bow shock, seeking to verify theoretical models. His quest to understand plasma has led him to experiments on pulsed power facilities around the world, including MAGPIE at Imperial College London, and Z at Sandia National Laboratory.