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August 30, 2019

MIT’s Hybrid Engine Could Electrify Long-Haul Trucking

A team led by Leslie Bromberg, principal research engineer at MIT's PSFC, has developed a hybrid gasoline-electric engine thought to be the next step toward having long-haul trucks run on electricity.

MIT CTL

bow shock in the Orion Nebula

August 7, 2019

Astrophysical shock phenomena reproduced in laboratory

PSFC's Chikang Li and an international team of researachers have reproduced critical conditions of collisionless shocks in the laboratory, allowing for detailed study of the processes taking place within giant cosmic smashups.

MIT News

August 1, 2019

PSFC physicist Maria Gatu Johnson wins APS award

Research scientist Maria Gatu Johnson, part of the PSFC’s High-Energy-Density Physics Division, will receive the American Physical Society’s Katherine E. Weimer Award, which recognizes outstanding plasma science research by a woman physicist in the early stages of her career.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Julian Picard, MIT

July 31, 2019

Julian Picard: Chopping microwaves, sharpening instincts

Picard's study of the microwaves that speed from the megawatt gyrotron at MIT’s PSFC could lead the way to smaller and more powerful particle accelerators, the kind of finished product Picard finds rewarding.  

PSFC

Brandon Sorbom, CFS

June 26, 2019

Brandon Sorbom: Tech Review 35InnovatorsUnder35

By developing an electromagnetic system using high-temperature superconductors to insulate part of the fusion process, Sorbom’s breakthrough could make fusion power plant designs dramatically cheaper to build.

MIT Technology Review

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