Research scientist Alessandro Marinoni shows that reversing traditional plasma shaping provides greater stability for fusion reactions.
New method could be useful for building quantum sensors and computers.
High-fidelity simulations by MIT nuclear researchers point the way to optimizing heat transfer in current and next-generation reactors.
Long-haul trucks with electric motors combined with gas-alcohol engines could slash pollution levels and greenhouse gases.
New understanding of heat transfer in boiling water could lead to efficiency improvements in power plants.
“Hybrid” cathodes could provide more power for a given weight and volume.
Nuclear science and engineering graduate student Miriam Kreher codes to create better models for complex interactions within nuclear reactors.
MIT researchers find a new way to make nanoscale measurements of fields in more than one dimension.
Growing material directly onto substrates and recycling chip patterns should enable faster, simpler manufacturing.
Noninvasive measurements of calcium could reveal neurons’ roles in different types of behavior.
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