Scientists at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have identified a long-standing asymmetry in how fusion plasma distributes ...

Fusion scientists have solved a long-standing mystery inside tokamaks, the donut-shaped machines designed to harness fusion ...

If we figure out how to harness this effectively and efficiently, this is it. This is the end. This is the solution,” an ...

Imagine trying to summon the sun to your research laboratory. Yes, you, big bright star! Bring your searing heat, the drama of your core’s constant nuclear fusion and your off-the-charts energy levels ...

The last week of July heralded not one but two scientific breakthroughs that have left the academic community abuzz and may bring us one step closer to the holy grail of fusion energy. Nuclear fusion ...

Nuclear fusion has long been the energy world’s moonshot, a reaction so powerful and so difficult to tame that many physicists once doubted it would ever be harnessed on Earth. Yet in the past few ...

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory published a new paper last week, marking significant results from the lab’s artificial intelligence research. In the paper, published in Nature Communications, PPPL ...

Experiments shed light on pressure-driven ionization in giant planets and stars CREDIT Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Inset by Jan Vorberger/Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf ...

Shaded outlines of calcium-40 and ytterbium-176 nuclei (40Ca+176Yb) as they collide, leading to fusion, with nucleon currents for neutrons in blue and protons in red. The net neutron flow is from ...

Experts warn that current nuclear fusion cost models may be overly optimistic, risking misallocation of vital climate funding ...

The insides of nuclear fusion reactors are violent and chaotic places. A new cold-spray coating can take the heat and also trap some rogue hydrogen particles at the same time, potentially making for ...

Physicists have heated gold to over 19,000 Kelvin, more than 14 times its melting point, without melting it, smashing the long-standing “entropy catastrophe” limit. Using an ultra-fast laser pulse at ...