The stakes of the “race to fusion” are dramatic. Commercial fusion has the potential to deliver nearly unlimited energy by replicating the physics that powers the sun.

China breaks a historic barrier in nuclear fusion, bringing the dream of nearly infinite energy closer to reality.

Nuclear fusion, the process that powers every star in the observable universe, has moved from theoretical physics into the realm of real laboratory results. On December 5, 2022, scientists achieved ...

About 60 years ago, Russian physicist Lev Artsimovich said nuclear fusion “will be ready when society needs it”. The UK has achieved a “major breakthrough for fusion energy research”, the UK Atomic ...

A 12-year-old Dallas student's four-year-long science project may have resulted in his becoming toe youngest person to ever achieve nuclear fusion.

'I loved the project, but I also kinda hated it,' the schoolboy confessed.

Nuclear fusion combines light hydrogen atoms to release energy, similar to the sun's processes. Fusion reactors are ...

At the same time, a current of cold electrons travels toward the heated plasma from the opposite direction. When the two meet, the plasma develops filament-shaped instabilities that SLAC’s facilities ...

Has the dawn of the nuclear fusion age arrived? One developer of the powerful energy-generating tech says it will be ...

The discussion about nuclear fusion has long involved its potential to create limitless amounts of energy. Thea Energy is one of several companies working to turn that potential into reality.

In late 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a historic nuclear fusion breakthrough by creating a fusion reaction that produced more energy than the lasers used to create it.

Georgia Tech’s Qi Tang is building machine learning (ML) models to accelerate nuclear fusion research, making it more affordable and more accurate. Backed by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy ...