New Horizons flyby starts to delivers results
Why the most distant object ever visited looks like a snowman – flyby delivers results Just over a year ago, courtesy of NASA’s New Horizons mission, we were treated to images of 2014MU69, a small object 6.6 billion kilometers from the sun – making it the most distant...
Engineers propose new method to stabilise next-generation fusion plasmas
Engineers have gained fresh insight into so-call 'Alfvén eigenmodes' which could bring cheap fusion power one step closer to a reality. This unstable, wave-like disturbance are produced by fusion reactions and can cause the loss of alpha particles and endanger reactor walls causing a reaction to become unstable...