There’s been a lot of buzz about a press release from Lockheed Martin about a fusion concept they’ve been working on.…
My previous post achieved unprecedented popularity, probably due to a quirk of the Facebook newsfeed deciding it was high priority that…
Pencil refills waiting to be obliterated in a fiery maelstrom. “Dear Pilot Pen Company Ltd please tell me what you put in…
The title of this blog post is an homage to a well written and excellent book on the subject by…
Hidden Canyon, Zion National Park, Utah. Own Work. The plasmas we make on MAGPIE don’t hang around for long –…
And it’s gotta be dense, and it’s gotta to be hot, and it’s gotta glow with x-ray light.* My month…
There hasn’t been much science done on MAGPIE since the end of February. After the upgrade to our lighting, we…
I’ve spent the last week and a bit helping to fix one of the four capacitor banks in MAGPIE. It’s…
What a long post. There is a bit about dragons at the end! This is the rather grandiose title that…
MAGPIE is currently undergoing maintenance as the college install new lighting to replace the ageing fluorescent tubes we currently have.…