A synthetic muscle material developed with PPPL scientists’ help rockets off to the International Space Station for three months of radiation tests. 

Scientist Lenore Rasmussen’s quest for synthetic muscle was spurred by a relative’s farm accident. 

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. 

A study finds a drop of lithium may be just what the doctor ordered to improve performance in certain turbulent plasmas. 

Researchers find a 3-D printer to be a valuable tool for customizing parts in the Laboratory.

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. 

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. 

Laurie Bagley, PPPL’s new head of Technology Transfer, delights in lending a helping hand to PPPL’s numerous inventors. 

PPPL staffers try to be sustainable in everything they do. Now a national award recognizes that even our electronics purchasing is green. 

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.