When laser flashes hit matter, electrons are knocked off their orbits around the atomic nuclei. This can generate extremely ...

Four experiments on the Z machine at 22 million amps provide data on simplified ‘targets’ for pulsed-power inertial fusion concepts Pacific Fusion today reported results from a series of experiments ...

The world’s only net-positive fusion experiment has been steadily ramping up the amount of power it produces, TechCrunch has learned. In recent attempts, the team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When in operation, this space inside the Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor contains plasma hotter than the sun. Paolo Verzone Wearing ...

Cold fusion, one of the most notorious blunders in science, is making a return – of sorts. Scientists have resurrected an experiment that was once claimed to show room-temperature nuclear fusion, ...

A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 experiment that may have quietly sparked the age of fusion energy. Arthur ...

OpenStar Technologies, a New Zealand-based fusion startup, has reported producing its first plasma in a levitated dipole experiment, a design that departs sharply from the tokamak reactors that ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pacific Fusion today reported results from a series of experiments conducted at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z Pulsed Power Facility under a Cooperative Research ...