For decades, the dream of a virtually limitless, clean energy source has hovered just out of reach, more science fiction than ...

While nuclear fusion has achieved key milestones, transforming it into a practical energy source requires solving complex ...

Nuclear fusion, which operates on the same principle that powers the sun, is expected to become a sustainable energy source ...

Experiments in the lab of Professor Farhat Beg at UC San Diego. Professor Beg is co-leading one of two teams of UC ...

Physicists at UC Santa Cruz will receive $555,000 of that to develop a literal gem of a monitoring system that such power plants will need to safely generate fusion energy—a system that incorporates ...

He reminded that fusion differs from fission, which splits atoms and creates radioactive waste. “Instead, think of joining ...

The Thunderbird Reactor is a custom-made, bench-top-sized particle accelerator and electrochemical reactor built by an interdisciplinary team at the University of British Columbia. Using a small bench ...

Right now, everyone is drooling over AI – and rightfully so. Artificial intelligence is already rewriting the rules of work, creativity, productivity… And it’s still early days in terms of this tech’s ...

The U.S. and China lead global efforts to make nuclear fusion commercially viable, with billion-dollar projects aiming for net-positive energy. Los Alamos scientists successfully recreated a 1938 ...

For long-time followers of fusion energy, Tokamak Hall is the high-water mark after decades of ups and downs. From an observation deck on the side, the surgically-clean, hospital-white room feels both ...