Over the past five years, private-sector funding for fusion energy has exploded. The total invested is approaching US$10 ...

Coordinated strategy of aggressive funding, talent repatriation and rapid prototyping is a bid to challenge Western dominance ...

The largest attempt at nuclear fusion to date is occurring in the south of France. Although it has run into some hiccups, it ...

Seen as the ‘holy grail’ of clean energy, scientists are racing to turn a century of experiments into a viable source of ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

The star is known as SDSS J0715-7334. It is a red giant star in the halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The metallicity of ...

The keys to harnessing fusion power—a clean, almost limitless supply of energy—sit in the heart of the sun. The only way we can access that heart is by listening to the sun’s heartbeat. To start up a ...

fusion uses heat to create energy by melding them together. In the simplest form, it fuses hydrogen found in water into an ...

The Sun, a G2V main-sequence star approximately 4.6 billion years old, is currently undergoing hydrogen fusion. Stellar evolution, primarily determined by a star's mass, dictates that the Sun will ...

I’d wager a guess that we are, as a species, rather fond of our home planet (our wanton carbon emissions notwithstanding). But the ugly truth is that the Earth is doomed. Someday, the Sun will enter a ...