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  2. Year: 2017
  3. Month: October

Month: October 2017

UW awarded $12.5 million to study astrophysical plasma here on Earth

The new Wisconsin Plasma Physics Laboratory, or WiPPL, will research fundamental properties of plasma in order to better understand our universe, where the hot gas is abundant.

Read the full article at: http://news.wisc.edu/uw-awarded-12-5-million-to-study-astrophysical-plasma-here-on-earth/
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