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A synthetic muscle material developed with PPPL scientists’ help rockets off to the International Space Station for three months of radiation tests.
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Scientist Lenore Rasmussen’s quest for synthetic muscle was spurred by a relative’s farm accident.
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Call him Mr. Clean. PPPL physicist Louis Delgado-Aparicio will use a prestigious grant to develop tools to create a cleaner plasma by flushing out impurities that can slow or halt fusion reactions.
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A study finds a drop of lithium may be just what the doctor ordered to improve performance in certain turbulent plasmas.
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Researchers find a 3-D printer to be a valuable tool for customizing parts in the Laboratory.
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It’s not often that an engineer fills a highly-placed position held by a physicist but that’s exactly what engineer Russ Feder did when he took over a crucial project for U.S. ITER, which manages U.S. contributions to the international fusion experiment.
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NASA’s first space probe to study the mysterious phenomenon that causes the northern lights, solar flares, and geomagnetic storms may use data from PPPL’s Magnetic Reconnection Experiment.
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Laurie Bagley, PPPL’s new head of Technology Transfer, delights in lending a helping hand to PPPL’s numerous inventors.
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PPPL staffers try to be sustainable in everything they do. Now a national award recognizes that even our electronics purchasing is green.
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Stories about PPPL blossomed all over the media this spring. Highlights include a front page stories in the The Times of Trenton and on the public radio station WHYY on physicist Luis Delgado-Aparicio winning a major research grant, a story about fusion energy that includes PPPL’s National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U) in Science Magazine and stories about a synthetic muscle material being launched into space in April in The Boston Globe and the front page of The Times of Trenton.
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