129 Results From "superconduct"

The report features six studies that thoroughly examined MIT's superconducting magnets design used in its breakthrough fusion test.
Energy

MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical

Scientists say they've developed a way to salvage nuclear waste from fission reactors — and turn it into a potent fuel for fusion reactors.
Nuclear Fusion

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Turn Nuclear Waste Into a Powerful Fuel

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has just shattered a longstanding limit in nuclear plasma density.
Nuclear Fusion

Chinese Fusion Reactor Achieves Plasma Density Previously Thought to Be Impossible

Scientists claim that China's "Artificial Sun" nuclear fusion reactor has more than doubled its own previous world record.
Energy

China’s “Artificial Sun” Just Smashed the Record for Stable Fusion Reaction

South Korean researchers have maintained plasma temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius for 48 seconds inside a tokamak fusion reactor.
Energy

Korean “Artificial Sun” Reactor Sets Record at 100 Million Degrees

New images seem to show a laser-fired nuclear fusion facility may be under development in southwestern China.
Energy

Satellite Images Show China Building What Appears to Be a Huge Fusion Facility

Mayonnaise may, according to a new study, help scientists figure out how to realistically harness the power of nuclear fusion.
Nuclear Fusion

Scientists Say Secret to Fusion May Lie in Hellmann’s Mayonnaise

Scientists have set a new fusion energy world record, producing 69 megajoules at the Joint European Torus in the UK.
Energy

Fusion Reactor Produces Record Amount of Energy in Final Experiment

A team of researchers claim to have created a superconducting material at both room temperature and feasible levels of pressure.
Science & Energy

Researchers Say They’ve Created Superconductors At Room Temperature

A massive cache of niobium-packed "niabobaoite" discovered in China may have broad implications for the global battery race.
Science & Energy

China Says It’s Discovered a Cache of a Strange New Ore

As more and more preprints detailing efforts to reproduce the room-temperature superconductor come rolling in, things aren't looking good.
Science & Energy

That Room-Temperature Superconductor Seems to Be Falling Apart

More researchers are piling on, burying the potentially revolutionary discovery of a room-temperature superconductor in skepticism.
Physics

The Claim of a Room Temperature Superconductor Is Starting to Look Fishy

The latest nail in the coffin of the purported room temp superconductor is a failed replication test conducted by Czech researchers.
Science & Energy

Oops! Purported Room Temp Superconductor Fails to Work When Replicated by Outside Team

Two years after publishing, the journal Nature has retracted what was believed to be a major superconductivity breakthrough.
Science & Energy

Journal Retracts Study on Room Temperature Superconductors

Researchers claimed they had created an above-room-temperature superconductor that can operate at ambient pressures. Chaos ensued.
Science & Energy

Claim of “Room-Temperature” Superconductor Is Tearing the Scientific World Apart

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak fusion reactor was able to sustain a plasma temperature of 120-million-degrees Celsius for 1,056 seconds.
Energy

China’s “Artificial Sun” Fusion Reactor Just Smashed Its Old Record

MIT engineers managed to create an intensely powerful magnetic field in a very compact space, which they say is a huge step toward nuclear fusion energy.
Energy

MIT Announces “Major Advance” in Fusion Power

China broke a record with its "artificial Sun" fusion reactor on Friday when it sustained a plasma temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius for 101 second
Science & Energy

China’s “Artificial Sun” Fusion Reactor Just Set a World Record

For the first time, scientists build a superconducting material that works at room temperature, albeit under extremely high pressures.
Science & Energy

Scientists Finally Built a Room-Temperature Superconductor

South Korea's fusion reactor just set a new world record, maintaining temperatures of over 100 million degrees for 20 long seconds.
Energy

Korean “Artificial Sun” Fusion Reactor Sets New World Record