Nuclear fusion

An international team of physicists has announced a “significant advance” in laser science that offers engineers a practical…

Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises said on Tuesday that it has signed three agreements with the Lawrence Livermore…

Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade…

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New research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has indicated that the rotation of the plasma core…

A prototype nuclear fusion power plant in the United Kingdom isn’t expected to be completed until 2040, but…

UK-based Pulsar Fusion has achieved its first plasma in the exhaust system of its Sunbird propulsion concept, marking…

With current chemical propulsion technology, it takes a spacecraft up to 10 months to reach Mars. Reducing that…

AI is a double-edged sword for the energy sector. The rapid integration of large language models into everything…

A 0.5-tonne superconducting magnet recently hovered silently inside a 5-meter-wide vacuum chamber, which marked a major milestone for…

Giant X-ray lasers do a lot for physics. These powerful instruments can probe the interiors of tiny molecules,…

Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have identified a new method to tame the destructive energy bursts…

Scientists Discover Path to ‘Extreme Light Intensities’ That Could Enable Ultra-Powerful Laser Weapons and Advanced Tech