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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

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Joe Wilkins

Fusion Startup Conducts Strange Ceremony Involving Woman With Wires Coming Out of Her Back
Science & Energy

Fusion Startup Conducts Strange Ceremony Involving Woman With Wires Coming Out of Her Back

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft just made a massive bet on nuclear fusion energy — and that bet has OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's name written all over it.
Energy

Microsoft Signs Deal to Get Fusion Power by 2028

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Experts argue in a number of letters published by The Guardian that the recent fusion power breakthrough is too little too late.
Nuclear Fusion

Gloomy Physicists Say Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Is Too Late to Save Us

By Victor Tangermann

China claims it will build the world's biggest nuclear fusion reactors within the next six years, a highly ambitious timeline.
Energy

China Announces Plan for Hybrid Fission-Fusion Power Facility

By Noor Al-Sibai

Nuclear fusion power, which is clean and basically limitless, could be just around the corner. Advancements made in recent weeks may actually tip the scale.
Energy

Experts Say Fusion Power Is Finally Starting to Look Imminent

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The rocket is partially powered by plastics used in a wide variety of plastic products like laundry detergent bottles, beverage bottles and other consumer products, making it a readily available source for fuel.
Off-World

Startup Tests Rocket Powered by Recycled Plastic

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Chinese scientists are studying lunar rock samples to assess whether or not they're a good fuel source for nuclear fusion.
Moon

China Analyzing Moon Rocks as Potential Fusion Power Source

By Tony Ho Tran

An experimental form of male birth control involves using magnets to heat up nanoparticles inside the testes to prevent sperm formation.
Energy

Scientists Debut Magnet Powerful Enough to Lift an Aircraft Carrier

By Tony Ho Tran

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

By Tony Ho Tran

New simulations show that a compact fusion reactor with compressed plasma would actually produce more electricity than it takes in.
Energy

Simulation Shows This Fusion Reactor Doing Something Amazing

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scienists were able to directly observe that our sun does the same kind of nuclear fusion expected from much heavier stars.
Nuclear Fusion

Scientists Decipher the Sun’s Nuclear Fusion for the First Time

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers argues that a spacecraft powered by nuclear fusion would radically improve our ability to explore the cosmos.
Off-World

Fusion-Drive Spacecraft: Express Solar System Travel, If We Figure It Out

By Dan Robitzski