AI Boom Siphons Billions From Crucial Energy Innovation Funding
AI is a double-edged sword for the energy sector. The rapid integration of large language models into everything…
Half-ton magnet aces world-first 1.8 million°F fusion plasma confinement
A 0.5-tonne superconducting magnet recently hovered silently inside a 5-meter-wide vacuum chamber, which marked a major milestone for…
Giant X-Rays Deliver the Sharpest View Yet of Fusion Plasma Gone Haywire
Giant X-ray lasers do a lot for physics. These powerful instruments can probe the interiors of tiny molecules,…
US team’s fusion plasma heat control method to protect tokamak walls
Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have identified a new method to tame the destructive energy bursts…
New coil manufacturing machine brings limitless fusion energy a step closer
Japan’s Helical Fusion has completed a one-of-a-kind coil manufacturing machine that could help it realize its vision for…
Billion-times more efficient fusion unlocked with low-frequency laser
A team of researchers has identified a mechanism that could lower the extreme temperature requirements for controlled nuclear…
China’s “Artificial Sun” Just Smashed a Key Fusion Barrier and Physics May Never Be the Same
As the world’s first superconducting tokamak, EAST（Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak）has three distinctive features: non-circular cross-section, fully superconducting magnets…
China’s ‘artificial sun’ experiment finds way to break fusion plasma density limit
HEFEI — Researchers have identified a method to surpass the plasma density limit in experiments with the Experimental…
What MIT Physicist Nuno Loureiro Was Working on Before Fatal Shooting
The fatal shooting of professor Nuno Loureiro of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has prompted an outpouring…
Plasma Turbulence Is Doing Surprising Things Inside Fusion Reactors
The interiors of fusion reactors can get seriously chaotic. But for obvious reasons—like extreme temperatures and pressures—researchers aren’t…
World’s largest fusion device solves key plasma heat loss challenge
For decades, physicists have been puzzled by a phenomenon inside fusion reactors that defies conventional theory: heat escaping…
Nvidia Expands Into Quantum Computing And Fusion Power
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at Nvidia’s moves in emerging tech, why AI models…