Helium-3 Could Be the Most Valuable Resource in Space and Nations Are Now Racing to Mine It on the Moon
Lovell City Moon base as imagined in the TV Series The Expanse. Credit: The Expanse The Moon is…
Merz Action Plan Aims for World’s First Commercial Fusion Reactor
Germany just made a huge bet on nuclear fusion, putting an exclamation point at the end of its…
Ever Wondered What Nuclear Fusion Looks Like? We Have Pics
Nuclear fusion may always be ten years away, but the technological breakthroughs aiming to get us there are…
Scientists Just Took a Giant Step Toward Scaling Up Nuclear Fusion
A team of researchers at MIT think they may have lowered one of the major barriers to achieving…
Physicists Smash Record With Magnetic Field 700,000 Times Stronger Than Earth’s
Under the right conditions, superconducting magnets allow electricity to flow essentially undisturbed, producing intense magnetic fields for a…
Chinese physicists produce most powerful stable magnetic field on Earth
An all-superconducting magnet built by Chinese scientists has generated a world-record steady magnetic field of 35.1 tesla, about…
Scientists make incredible breakthrough after aiming powerful lasers at diamond: ‘An inherently brittle material’
For the first time, researchers at the University of California San Diego witnessed diamond capsules undergo shock-induced amorphization,…
Scientists Taught AI to Predict Nuclear Fusion Success—and It’s Actually Working
AI is giving a huge efficiency boost to one of the biggest nuclear fusion facilities in the world—but…
Magnetic secrets of plasma revealed for stable nuclear fusion reactor
Researchers from South Korea have provided experimental proof of ‘multi-scale coupling’ in plasma. The study demonstrates how microscopic…
Physicists Blow Up Gold With Giant Lasers, Accidentally Disprove Renowned Physics Model
Scientists equipped with giant lasers have blown up gold at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, heating it to 14…