The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), roughly 4 miles out from campus, is a national lab run by the Department of Energy and yet remains a relatively elusive branch of Princeton’s research ...

In Princeton, N.J., the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has broken ground on the Princeton Plasma Innovation Center (PPIC), a state-of-the-art office and ...

Dignitaries formally inaugurate the beginning of FLARE operations. From left: Vyacheslav (Slava) Lukin; Hantao Ji, PPPL physicist and FLARE’s principal investigator; Brandon Thorne, director of ...

Plainsboro, New Jersey - Stan Kaye, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), was recently named a Fellow by the American Physical Society (APS). Kaye ...

A team of physicists and engineers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory built a twisting fusion reactor known as a stellarator that uses permanent magnets, showcasing a potentially cost-effective ...

Graduate physics students from across the country recently descended on the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) for the first PPPL Graduate Summer School -- a ...

University Professor Emeritus and Nobel laureate Val Logsdon Fitch died on Feb. 5 in Princeton after a distinguished career in the natural sciences.He was 91. Throughout his life, Fitch worked on the ...

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announced that Princeton graduate students Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman and Daniel Longenecker are two of the 13 recipients of the prestigious 2022 Hertz Fellowships in ...

A new type of rocket thruster that could take humankind to Mars and beyond has been proposed by a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics […] ...

Very early on Tuesday, Oct. 5, Princeton climatologist Syukuro “Suki” Manabe got a phone call from Sweden telling him that he had won the 2021 Nobel Prize in physics. “I was really happy and surprised ...