Why Nuclear Fusion Will Not Solve the AI Power Problem
With the supposed need for vast new electricity generation to fuel the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, AI companies are…
Trump Media is merging with a Google-backed fusion energy company in a deal worth $6 billion
Trump media, the company behind the president’s personal social media platform Truth Social, is inexplicably merging with a…
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…
‘A dream that scientists have been chasing for decades’
Scientists are experimenting with different alloys to figure out the right metals to use in potential fusion reactors.…
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…
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…
‘People are going to get their Nobel Prize’
Materials scientists at Stony Brook University in New York are developing increasingly resilient nuclear reactors designed to conduct…
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…
The real reason Google DeepMind is working with a fusion energy startup
Energy startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) said Thursday it’s working with Google’s DeepMind division to fine tune —…
The real reason Google DeepMind is working with a fusion energy startup
Alex Creely, director of Tokamak operations at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, at the company’s campus in Devens, Massachusetts, US,…
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…