The most powerful supersonic shock waves responsible for phenomena like the Aurora Borealis only occurred far outside the solar system. That is until scientists at PPPL created them in the Laboratory.
Quest Magazine, PPPL’s annual research magazine, has the same great articles and photos about the latest scientific research, but in a new digital format. Check it out!
Fulbright scholar and former Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship student Alexandra LeViness will be attending Princeton University’s graduate program in plasma physics next fall. But first she’s taking a very special gap year to work on the W7-X stellarator in Germany.
A NASA engineer tells 600 young women attending PPPL’s Young Women’s Conference to follow their dreams in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Researchers on PPPL’s Lithium Tokamak Experiment find lithium may be the key to solving a major challenge in magnetic confinement fusion energy: keeping the plasma hot.
Researchers from PPPL and other national laboratories in the U.S. travel to China to try out a new technique to improve plasma performance in fusion reactions.