Across the global energy race, a cluster of breakthroughs is turning what once sounded like science fiction into a concrete engineering roadmap. From star-like fusion reactors to radically more ...

Physicists are teasing a potential leap in nuclear fusion that sounds almost absurd on its face: a path to reactions that are ...

Zap Energy’s three-meter reactor uses a lead-lithium liquid wall, cutting hardware needs and bringing cleaner, modular power ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Technicians use a service system lift to access the target chamber interior for inspection and maintenance at the National ...

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 ...

The breakthrough scientific moment for fusion power—and the potential for nearly limitless electricity from a so-called star in a jar—came at the end of 2022 when scientists at Lawrence Livermore ...

File: The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 8:13 p.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2015. (NASA/SDO photo) U.S. government scientists at a California laboratory have reportedly made a monumental ...

Inside a vast, hangar-like building in Devens, a trio of employees are working to test and assemble the pieces of what is likely one of the most advanced machines being built on Earth. One part of a ...