Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines.

Moon bases, living to 100 and (finally!) flying cars. What 2076 and our future will look like may be stranger than we expect.

An international research consortium announced on June 29 that it has experimentally confirmed two previously unknown superconductors — the first materials ever identified from scratch by a ...

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Experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) require breathtaking precision. Each of the 192 lasers is focused to a width of a few millimeters to enter a ...

Researchers were unsure whether alpha particles would aid or hinder fusion. Simulations suggest they help, by dampening turbulence.

Realta Fusion showed it could generate electricity from a fusion reaction, no steam turbine required.

A fusion company has made a few light bulbs glow by converting plasma straight into electricity for the very first time. The ...

An experimental fusion reactor in Madison, Wisconsin, has achieved a technical milestone by converting ...

A team of scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic and IBM has calculated nine molecular ...

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The US National Ignition Facility is the only laboratory where a nuclear-fusion reaction has generated more energy than it consumed. Here’s how it achieved this historic milestone and sparked fresh ...