MIT students contribute to success of historic fusion experiment

Students are part of large team that achieved fusion ignition for the first time in a laboratory.

Plasma Science and Fusion Center • mit
Sept. 6, 2022 ~4 min

How to keep high school athletes safe from heat illness in a brutally hot summer

The first two weeks of preseason training are the toughest as players’ bodies acclimatize to running hard in the heat. An exercise scientist explains the risks.

Susan Yeargin, Associate Professor of Athletic Training, University of South Carolina • conversation
Aug. 1, 2022 ~9 min


How to keep athletes safe from heat illness as high school sports practice begins amid a brutally hot summer

The first two weeks of preseason training are the toughest as players’ bodies acclimatize to running hard in the heat. An exercise scientist explains the risks.

Susan Yeargin, Associate Professor of Athletic Training, University of South Carolina • conversation
Aug. 1, 2022 ~9 min

How to keep teen athletes safe from heat illness as sports practice begins amid a brutally hot summer

The first two weeks of preseason training are the toughest as players’ bodies acclimatize to running hard in the heat. An exercise scientist explains the risks.

Susan Yeargin, Associate Professor of Athletic Training, University of South Carolina • conversation
Aug. 1, 2022 ~9 min

Evan Leppink: Seeking a way to better stabilize the fusion environment

In a residency supported by the Department of Energy, the MIT PhD candidate will explore the high-field side of the DIII-D tokamak.

Paul Rivenberg | Plasma Science and Fusion Center • mit
June 15, 2022 ~5 min

How the universe got its magnetic field

By studying the dynamics of plasma turbulence, MIT researchers are helping to solve one of the mysteries of the origins of cosmological magnetic fields.

Martin Greenwald | Plasma Science and Fusion Center • mit
May 25, 2022 ~8 min

MIT expands research collaboration with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to build net energy fusion machine, SPARC

New five-year agreement will support SPARC science, increase graduate students and postdocs, and support interdisciplinary work toward fusion power plants.

Plasma Science and Fusion Center • mit
May 10, 2022 ~6 min

Machine learning, harnessed to extreme computing, aids fusion energy development

Linking techniques from machine learning with advanced numerical simulations, MIT researchers take an important step in state-of-the-art predictions for fusion plasmas.

Martin Greenwald | Plasma Science and Fusion Center • mit
April 27, 2022 ~7 min


Finding the questions that guide MIT fusion research

After four decades at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Deputy Director Martin Greenwald embodies a brief history of fusion at MIT.

Paul Rivenberg | Plasma Science and Fusion Center • mit
April 8, 2022 ~7 min

Nuclear fusion: how excited should we be?

Fusion produces more energy per gram of fuel than any other process that could be achieved on Earth.

Lee Packer, Applied Radiation Physics Section Leader, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy • conversation
Feb. 23, 2022 ~8 min

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