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MIT students study plasma physics beneath Alaska's aurora
May 22, 2026
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news:

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MIT students study plasma physics beneath Alaska's aurora

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For many graduate students, waking up at noon after a 4 a.m. bedtime is a sign of a night well spent. For a group of MIT students, it was simply the start of their workday -timed not to the sun, but to the aurora.

Their goal was simple: to study plasma pheno . . .

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