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

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.
Energy

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.
Energy

Middle Schooler Builds Tiny, Working Fusion Reactor

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.
Energy

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

Fusion Startup Claims Breakthrough Will Provide “Unlimited” Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists are using mayonnaise to study the properties of molten metal being used to create fusion reactions in the laboratory setting.
Nuclear Fusion

This Physicist Is Using Mayonnaise to Study Nuclear Fusion

By Jacob Banas

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.
Energy

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

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.
Energy

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.
Energy

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.
Energy

This Startup Wants Its Fusion Reactor to Actually Produce Power

By Victor Tangermann

Laser scientists say a machine learning breakthrough has smashed the standing record for a fusion power yield using machine learning.
Energy

Laser Scientists Just Tripled Their Fusion Power Yield

By Jon Christian

Sci-fi Short Film “Hyperlight” Considers the Possibilities of Faster-Than-Light Travel
Space

Sci-fi Short Film “Hyperlight” Considers the Possibilities of Faster-Than-Light Travel

By Catherine Mullen

A collaboration between MIT and two energy companies is encouraging interdisciplinary research to fast-track the development of practical fusion power.
Science & Energy

MIT Is Pouring Resources Into Commercializing Fusion Power

By Jon Christian

Researchers from Princeton University and the Department of Energy say they've discovered a new way to stabilize super-heated plasma in fusion reactions.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discovered a New Way to Stabilize Fusion Reactions

By Jon Christian

MIT Is Taking on Fusion Power. Could This Be the Time It Actually Works?
Science & Energy

MIT Is Taking on Fusion Power. Could This Be the Time It Actually Works?

By Chelsea Gohd

Researchers Have Just Discovered The Tiniest Star Known to Science
Science & Energy

Researchers Have Just Discovered The Tiniest Star Known to Science

By Karla Lant

There’s No Argument Against Nuclear Power
Nuclear Fusion

There’s No Argument Against Nuclear Power

By Todd Jaquith

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Nuclear Fusion

Limitless Energy: South Korean Reactor Sets a New Record for Stable Nuclear Fusion

By Dom Galeon

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Nuclear Fusion

Going Nuclear: New Experiment Could Be the Key to Nuclear Fusion

By Jelor Gallego

According to a new essay, several companies trying to develop nuclear fusion reactors believe they're getting pretty close.
Energy

What You Need To Know About Fusion Energy

By Cameron McCloskey

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Future Society

The Difference Between a Hydrogen Bomb and an Atom Bomb

By Jolene Creighton