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A camera mounted inside the JET fusion reactor recorded an amazing video of glowing plasma swirling during this week's record experiment.

Amazing Video Shows Inside Fusion Reactor During Record Breaking Test

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the UK-based JET lab have smashed a fusion energy record for the first time in 25 years, producing 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds.

Fusion Scientists Say They Just Made a Major Breakthrough

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of scientists in China say they’ve discovered a cost-effective method of creating fusion energy that could rival much more expensive counterparts.

Chinese Scientists Say They’ve Discovered Cheap New Way to Do Nuclear Fusion

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.

Scientists Debut Magnet Powerful Enough to Lift an Aircraft Carrier

By Tony Ho Tran

Using a gigantic laser, scientists heated up a peppercorn-sized sample of two hydrogen isotopes to well past the temperature of the Sun's core.

Scientists Are On the Edge of a Fusion Power Breakthrough

By Victor Tangermann

"I think modern nuclear power plants are safe contrary to what people may think," Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during a conference this week.

Elon Musk Says It’s Totally Possible to Build “Extremely Safe” Nuclear Plants

By Victor Tangermann

A Canadian fusion energy company is set to break ground on a large-scale nuclear fusion demonstration plant in Culham, UK — and it's being funded by richest man in the world

Jeff Bezos Is Helping Build a Fusion Power Plant in the UK

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers are shipping the world's most powerful magnet to the construction site of the world's largest experimental fusion reactor called ITER.

World’s Strongest Magnet Could Help Make Fusion Energy a Reality

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of researchers have come up with a fusion-based spacecraft thruster that uses a hydrogen isotope called deuterium as a fuel source.

Scientists: “Direct Fusion Drive” Could Get Us to the Edge of the Solar System in 10 Years

By Victor Tangermann

A company is trying to woo NASA into signing a contract with them to develop a fusion-powered spacecraft propulsion system for travel to Mars.

Fusion Thruster Startup Anticipates “First Town on Mars”

By Victor Tangermann

British engineers are preparing to test the fuel mix that could one day power the largest nuclear fusion experiment in the world, as Nature reports.

Scientists Now Testing Fuel for Giant New Fusion Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

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

Korean “Artificial Sun” Fusion Reactor Sets New World Record

By Victor Tangermann

China has successfully powered up its "artificial sun" nuclear fusion reactor for the first time according to Agence France Presse.

China Just Powered Up Its “Artificial Sun” Fusion Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in the UK claim to have achieved first plasma on an upgraded, experimental fusion reactor.

Scientists Just Fired Up an Experimental Fusion Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

With just hours left before he turned 13, Jackson Oswalt managed to fuse two deuterium atoms together in a fusion reactor he built — in his play room.

Middle Schooler Builds Tiny, Working Fusion Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent tweet, Elon Musk argued that fusion energy will probably be more expensive than wind and solar. Experts are divided.

Elon Musk: Fusion Will Probably Be More Expensive Than Wind, Solar

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at MIT claim their "SPARC" compact fusion reactor should work — or at least in theory, as they argue in a series of papers.

MIT Researchers Say Their Fusion Reactor Is “Very Likely to Work”

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers have begun construction of the world's largest nuclear fusion project today in southern France, with operations planned to begin in late 2025.

Scientists Start Construction of World’s Largest Fusion Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists Discover New Trick to Stabilize Fusion Reactors

Physicists Discover New Trick to Stabilize Fusion Reactors

By Victor Tangermann

An Australian fusion startup called HB11 claims to have found a way to revolutionize current nuclear fusion technology. A bold statement.

Fusion Startup Claims Breakthrough Will Provide “Unlimited” Energy

By Victor Tangermann

By studying the plasma in the Sun's atmosphere, we could learn how to control it here on Earth and finally make fusion energy a reality.

Studying the Sun’s Atmosphere Could Make Fusion Power a Reality

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are hoping a new upgrade at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) could finally make fusion a reality by coating the reactor in lithium.

Scientists Have a New Idea to Make a Fusion Reactor Practical

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX-Like Startups Think They Can Solve Fusion For Cheap

SpaceX-Like Startups Think They Can Solve Fusion For Cheap

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese scientists want to achieve fusion power generation by the year 2040, according to Reuters.

Chinese Scientists Aim to Generate Fusion Power by 2040

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists found they achieved high pressure plasma — enough to achieve fusion power — at an old fusion reactor in San Diego called DIII-D.

Scientists Just Got Amazing Results From an Old Fusion Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from the First Light Fusion group in Oxford are planning to demonstrate fusion by mid-2019 and the creation of fusion energy by 2024.

This Startup Wants Its Fusion Reactor to Actually Produce Power

By Victor Tangermann

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New Technique Could Allow Scientists to Create Fusion Energy

By Chelsea Gohd

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The UK Government Just Gave a Massive Boost to the World’s Largest Fusion Reactor

By Chelsea Gohd

New Insights Into Matter’s Behavior in Fusion Could Lead to an Unlimited Source of Clean Energy

New Insights Into Matter’s Behavior in Fusion Could Lead to an Unlimited Source of Clean Energy

We Are Closer Than Ever to Unlimited Clean Energy

We Are Closer Than Ever to Unlimited Clean Energy

By Stewart Prager, Michael C. Zarnstorff

Solar Power Finally Becomes the Cheapest Source for New Energy

Solar Power Finally Becomes the Cheapest Source for New Energy

By Robert Sanders

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A Star in a Jar: Fusion Power and Limitless Energy Explained

By Jelor Gallego

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Unlimited Energy: Physicists Assert We Already Have a Viable Model of a Fusion Device

By Jasmine Solana

Fusion Energy: Compact Tokamak is 100 Times Smaller And Could Run Years Earlier

Fusion Energy: Compact Tokamak is 100 Times Smaller And Could Run Years Earlier

By Patrick Caughill

China Has a 50 Million Degree Hydrogen Plasma Breakthrough

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China Has a 50 Million Degree Hydrogen Plasma Breakthrough