The US Department of Energy announced Tuesday that scientists at a national lab — for the first time ever — have generated more energy from nuclear fusion than the process took to start. Fusion, which ...

Last week, the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory made nuclear fusion history. At 1 a.m. Pacific on December 5, scientists fired the world’s most energetic lasers to ...

The quest to make fusion power a reality recently took a massive step forward. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced the results of an experiment ...

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) flagship fusion machine has officially started its fifth scientific campaign, the UK ...

Nuclear fusion, an energy generation method driven by the combination of two hydrogen atoms, has long been sought for its potential as a near-limitless source of energy. In the pursuit of cheap and ...

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nuclear fission. Whereas the latter involves a process that happens all around us without any human involvement, and where ...

What if scientists could harness the extraordinarily powerful process that fuels the sun to generate clean energy here on Earth? In a potentially historic milestone, they are taking a step towards ...

Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the sun and other stars through the combination of two hydrogen atoms into one helium atom. In that process, part of the mass of the hydrogen is converted to ...