A video game-inspired algorithm enables rapid detection of high-energy particle collisions in virtual fusion reactors, operating up to 15 times faster than previous Octree methods.

Researchers in the US have revealed that heat does not flow as expected ... or created in experiments aiming for laser-driven fusion ignition. “The work is expected to provide a better ...

After a nuclear fusion experiment goes haywire, Dr. Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina) becomes Dr. Octopus with four mechanical tentacles. The stress of saving the city causes Peter’s powers to fade ...

Fusion energy, hailed as a potential source of clean and sustainable power, relies on injecting high-energy neutral particles to heat plasma to millions of degrees Celsius. “However, if some of ...

To investigate this intriguing difference, researchers from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem carried out theoretical modelling and conducted a series of experiments with synthetic disc “petals”.

East Texas was under a massive heat wave. Somewhere in the neighborhood of two consecutive months, temperatures were above 100 degrees. In 2016, as an experiment, I placed cookies in my car, with a ...

Under the extreme conditions that occur within reactors, these particles can sometimes leak out, which cools plasmas within the reactor and degrades the fusion process. Since these particles are such ...

The promising prospects of high-temperature latent heat storage (HT-LHS ... perfect insulation around the PCM domain is challenging in practical experiments, resulting in heat losses that are not ...

A vast device is seen at a preassembly hall of the world's largest fusion experiment machine, the ITER Tokamak, in St Paul-Lez-Durance, France, Nov. 23, 2023. (Xinhua/Gao Jing) ITER, popularly known ...