Nuclear fusion usually brings to mind sprawling facilities, blistering temperatures, and machines built on a scale that can swallow budgets whole. This device does something stranger.

US scientists have turned to the world’s first exascale supercomputer, the Frontier, to unlock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When in operation, this space inside the Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor contains plasma hotter than the sun. Paolo Verzone Wearing ...

X, the stellarator experiment in Greifswald, Germany, has built on knowledge gained from its predecessors to demonstrate the ...

Nuclear fusion power has long been “50 years away”, but the tide may be turning. In the shadow of major government projects ...

Brit boffins have a £2.5 billion ($3.4 billion) budget for fusion power research and development, and the government agency ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In the race for clean energy, no technology is quite as promising as nuclear fusion, but the road toward energy freedom is filled with barriers that ...

The promise of nuclear fusion feels simple. Just as stars fuse hydrogen into heavier elements to produce energy, a fusion reactor generates massive amounts of energy by combining lightweight particles ...

Today, many fusion reactors rely on deuterium and tritium—heavy isotopes of hydrogen—to power fusion reactions. But where did ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Tungsten, represented unexpectedly by the letter W on the periodic table of elements (for wolframite, an ore where tungsten is often found), is ...

EAST’s accomplishment is notable since the density limit has long prevented researchers from increasing plasma density past a certain point. Higher plasma density has historically been associated with ...