On May 22, the latest experimental campaign concluded at the world's most powerful nuclear fusion device of the stellarator ...

Fusion power has long been promised as a clean, abundant energy source, but scientists have struggled to harness it ...

Fusion energy startup Realta Fusion, a University of Wisconsin-Madison partner, announced they are moving into the next phase ...

A record has been set at the Wendelstein 7-X research facility. The researchers see this as progress towards the commercial ...

Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) is the world's largest stellarator-type fusion reactor. The experimental facility is operated at the ...

Nuclear fusion reactors are highly powerful technologies that can generate energy by fusing (i.e., joining) two light atomic ...

Each second of operation at these extreme conditions requires years of effort from thousands of scientists and engineers,” said Professor Luo Guangnan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In January ...

Turbulence in nature refers to the complex, time-dependent, and spatially varying fluctuations that develop in fluids such as ...

This method, known as magnetic fusion ... you could not see a pathway to an inertial confinement fusion energy plant,” she said. “So this was a necessary first step.” Adams said the fusion ...

Called X-point target radiator (XPTR), this discovery could also help shed excess heat, and therefore has the potential to ...

Metamaterials made of magnetic photonic crystals have been generated and tuned to a theoretically predicted transition point at which peculiar optical properties emerge. For example, when light is ...