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Newswise — The Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) announced that they have experimentally verified that KSTAR’s superconducting magnets maintain maximum performance even after 16 years of continuous operation. KSTAR’s superconducting magnets are composed of bundles of 0.8 mm superconducting wires, each coated with a 2-micrometer-thick layer of chromium to ensure insulation. However, with repeated…
Newswise — A pair of physicists with long ties to PPPL are being honored for their foundational work on turbulence in plasma. Understanding why instabilities occur and how to limit them is critical to perfecting fusion as a stable energy source for the electrical grid. Greg Hammett, a PPPL theoretical and computational principal research physicist,…
Newswise — How are stars born, and how do they die? How do they produce the energy that keeps them burning for billions of years? How do they create the elements we observe today? Definitive answers to these questions continue to elude scientists in their quest to understand the processes that shape the chemical makeup…
As It Happens6:00Can pigeons guide missiles? Can dead trout swim? Ig Nobels celebrate weirdest research The man who first documented homosexual necrophilia between two mallard ducks stood at a podium on Thursday in front of a panel of revered Nobel laureates, and held up the taxidermied remains of the befouled fowl in question. “This is…
Newswise — In a new study, physicists from the United States and Israel may have gotten to the bottom of a quirky behavior of growing plants—and a mystery that intrigued Charles Darwin himself during the later decades of his life. For many humans, plants might seem stationary and even a little dull. But green things…
Newswise — After nearly a decade of preparation, scientists – including researchers from Rutgers University – have turned on a new apparatus capable of detecting a host of mysterious tiny particles. They are in search of special, new kinds of subatomic particles that, if found, could rewrite the physical laws of the universe. Researchers working…
BYLINE: Russ Nelson Newswise — Ashok Silwal, a doctoral candidate and graduate research assistant at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has been chosen to receive a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) scholarship to study stream interaction regions (SIRs) in the…
A McMaster University research team says despite rain and colder-than-expected weather, their expedition to Iceland was a success and they were able to map lava tubes with the drone-mounted system they developed. As CBC Hamilton reported in July, the McMaster Deep-space Analogue Research Expedition (DARE) team spent a year planning an expedition to unnamed lava…
Newswise — Before quantum computers can solve complex problems, researchers must develop technologies that manage larger numbers of qubits (the building blocks of quantum computers) for extended periods. Neutral atoms play an important role in this effort and are promising for quantum computing because they offer a stable, controllable, and scalable platform for building qubits…
Newswise — Candle flames and airplane engines produce tiny soot particles from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as their precursors, both of which are harmful to humans and environment. These carbon-based particles are also common in space, making up 10-12% of interstellar matter, and are becoming valuable for use in electronic devices and sustainable energy. However,…
