Scientists have made a groundbreaking advancement in fusion energy containment, solving a 70-year-old problem.

That was the thought racing through physicist Francis Perrin’s mind in May 1972. He was examining a dark piece of uranium ore ...

In an unassuming industrial park 30 miles outside Boston, engineers are building a futuristic machine to replicate the energy that powers the stars. If all goes to plan, it could be the key to ...

It seems too good to be true, but UK-based Pulsar Fusion has revealed its new Sunbird self-contained nuclear rocket tug that ...

India is among only the six nations globally, believed to have tested thermonuclear weapons. India tested five nuclear ...

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"Every time we do a fusion experiment on the NIF, we are actually the hottest place in the entire solar system." Scientist ...

An innovative algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles within nuclear fusion reactors has been developed, inspired by technologies used to determine whether bullets hit targets ...

Nuclear fusion is the process wherein hydrogen atoms fuse to form helium, which releases massive amounts of energy. It is the same reaction that powers the sun. Since the 1930s, scientists have hoped ...

Tokamak is a mainstream device used for research on controlled nuclear fusion. It features a vacuum chamber to hold plasmas with a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius for a long time for a ...

Pulsar Fusion via YouTube A U.K. startup called Pulsar Fusion has recently unveiled a project it has been developing “in complete secrecy” for the past decade: nuclear fusion-powered rockets ...

Unlike nuclear fission, which creates energy by breaking an atom apart, fusion forces two nuclei together into one. Reactions take place in a hot, charged gas called plasma and need extremely high ...