Recent fusion breakthroughs have generated interest from investors like Sam Altman and Bill Gates—along with some unrealistic ...

A pivotal scene in the explosive hit biopic and Best Picture winner, "Oppenheimer," involves America's top scientists ...

The dream of humanity to imitate the forces that created their habitat has been alive for at least as far back as the time ...

In an unassuming industrial park 30 miles outside Boston, engineers are building a futuristic machine to replicate the energy that powers the stars. If all goes to plan, it could be the key to ...

Lawmakers introduced a package of bills to support nuclear fusion research, in hopes of creating a nuclear "Silicon Valley" ...

The amount of energy produced from fusion is very large — four times as much as nuclear fission reactions — and fusion reactions can be the basis of future fusion power reactors. Plans call for ...

The Holy Grail of energy production, nuclear fusion, is making rapid advances and one experimental reactor in the United ...

The world’s largest and most powerful superconducting electromagnet is ready to become the pulsing “heart” inside of a ...

An international team of scientists has identified an unexpected region of heavy, neutron-deficient isotopes in the nuclear chart where nuclear fission is predominantly governed by an asymmetric mode.