Arianna Gleason is an award-winning scientist at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory who studies matter in its most extreme forms—from roiling magma in the center of our ...

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nuclear fission. Whereas the latter involves a process that happens all around us without any human involvement, and where ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Scientists and companies have been trying for decades to harness fusion energy, the process that fires the sun, to generate electricity on Earth. Fusion energy, the ...

Fusion energy is having a moment. Last week, Commonwealth Fusion Energy Systems, which is backed by Google, announced it had raised nearly $3 billion in capital and would start developing a fusion ...

Proxima Fusion has signed the agreement to put the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant on the grid in ...

What if the key to solving the world’s energy crisis was hidden in a process so ambitious, so technically demanding, that even experts once dismissed it as science fiction? For decades, nuclear fusion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time inside ...

A nuclear fusion breakthrough has always been 30-odd years away, but not anymore. The race for commercialization is on. Today, 53 fusion energy companies worldwide are competing to be the first to ...

About 60 years ago, Russian physicist Lev Artsimovich said nuclear fusion “will be ready when society needs it”. The UK has achieved a “major breakthrough for fusion energy research”, the UK Atomic ...

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

Supporters of the vast, but thus far elusive, potential of nuclear fusion have released a “road map” that quantifies the economic impact the nascent industry could deliver for California — provided ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Scientists and companies have been trying ‌for decades to harness fusion energy, the process ‌that fires the sun, to generate electricity on Earth. A $6 billion deal ...