The Cool Down on MSN3h
Scientists achieve major milestone in quest for nuclear fusion reactor: 'Holy grail of clean energy'
"Constructing the first quadrant is a big achievement." Scientists achieve major milestone in quest for nuclear fusion ...
21 Holy Grail Materials Could Unleash Fusion Once and for All
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) will be relying on tungsten as its plasma-facing material, but a ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists14h
Introduction—Fusion, forever the energy of tomorrow?
Will fusion as an energy source finally become an everyday, commercial reality in the next decade or so—or not come to ...
IFLScience14h
We’ve Only Been To Uranus Once And The Freak Timing May Have Misled Us For Years
By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists16h
After ITER: What China and others are doing in fusion. Interview with MIT’s Dennis Whyte
The former dean of MIT's plasma fusion dept—which is intimately tied to the privately funded Commonwealth Fusion Systems, ...
GeekWire19h
Uncommon Thinkers: Zap’s Uri Shumlak wrestles with fusion energy in pursuit of carbon-free power
“I just thought they were more elegant,” he said. Shumlak was particularly interested in the physics of plasma, which is a ...
Interesting Engineering1d
A dark matter breakthrough? The case for primordial black holes
A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.
Heavy-ion run at the LHC begins
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is like an immensely powerful kitchen, designed to cook up some of the rarest and hottest ...
Interesting Engineering2d
US firm sets record with plasma fusion temperature of ‘392 million degrees F for 24 hrs’
Quantum Kinetics Corporation (QKC) claimed that it successfully triggered plasma fusion temperatures of 392 million degrees ...
The Debrief3d
Physicist Discovers Strange ‘Hidden’ Effect of Einstein’s Relativity Theory Long Overlooked by Science
New research has unveiled a previously unacknowledged effect of Einstein’s relativity theory similar to time dialtion and ...