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…
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…
‘I’m really hyped for this project’
The Pacific Fusion company recently proposed a cutting-edge billion-dollar nuclear research facility. Although the logistical details remain undecided…
Government lab makes breakthrough that sounds like something from science fiction: ‘Exciting results’
A team of researchers has designed an exhaust system that dramatically reduces the extreme heat found inside fusion…
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,…
Fusion breakthrough uses inverted D plasma to solve key energy challenge
Scientists at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility are investigating a different approach to tokamak operation that has yielded…