We are in the middle of a long-term geopolitical race as China, Europe and the U.K. continue pouring billions into fusion ...

Experiments show fusion plasma can stay stable at higher densities by controlling reactor walls, challenging long-standing limits.

As companies around the world work to commercialize fusion energy—clean power generated by combining two light atoms—not much ...

China is racing forward in its effort to pave the way in fusion energy science, and state-sponsored media reported earlier this week that one of the country’s next-gen reactors is now under ...

Researchers have demonstrated that intense laser fields, particularly at low frequencies, can significantly enhance nuclear ...

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Inside a French fusion experiment, a metal more associated with lightbulb filaments than star power just did something extraordinary. Tungsten, long considered too brittle and temperamental for the ...

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nuclear fission. Whereas the latter involves a process that happens all around us without any human involvement, and where ...

Commercial fusion power plants may be cheaper and easier to build thanks to a breakthrough by TAE Technologies that allows reactors to generate their own containment fields without the need for ...

A team of researchers has identified a mechanism that could lower the extreme temperature ...

The carbon fusion reaction, in which two 12C nuclei combine under extreme stellar conditions, is of paramount importance in astrophysics. This process not only dictates the evolution of massive stars ...