China builds its most advanced fusion reactor BEST by 2027, aiming to achieve commercial fusion power by 2030 through state ...

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 ...

Scientists say the path to commercial fusion power may hinge on better ways to measure the behavior of superheated plasma.

The rapid rise of AI is both straining global energy systems and accelerating the race to achieve commercial nuclear fusion, even as investment priorities shift away from traditional energy innovation ...

The last week of July heralded not one but two scientific breakthroughs that have left the academic community abuzz and may bring us one step closer to the holy grail of fusion energy. Nuclear fusion ...

Nuclear fusion has long been the energy world’s moonshot, a reaction so powerful and so difficult to tame that many physicists once doubted it would ever be harnessed on Earth. Yet in the past few ...

Imagine trying to summon the sun to your research laboratory. Yes, you, big bright star! Bring your searing heat, the drama of your core’s constant nuclear fusion and your off-the-charts energy levels ...

UK government announces multibillion-pound science investments — but what impact will this have on the global race in these fields?

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory published a new paper last week, marking significant results from the lab’s artificial intelligence research. In the paper, published in Nature Communications, PPPL ...

Experiments shed light on pressure-driven ionization in giant planets and stars CREDIT Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Inset by Jan Vorberger/Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf ...

A consultancy firm with expertise in radiation safety can help companies developing a new generation of commercial fusion reactors to navigate the regulatory framework ...

Physicists have heated gold to over 19,000 Kelvin, more than 14 times its melting point, without melting it, smashing the long-standing “entropy catastrophe” limit. Using an ultra-fast laser pulse at ...