but that's precisely what scientists are attempting to achieve as they fire up the world's largest laser in an attempt to grasp the holy grail of energy: nuclear fusion. And speaking of out-of ...

It doesn’t even work yet, but nuclear fusion has encountered a shortage of tritium, the key fuel source for the most ...

"And by focusing our research and development around the fundamental technology related to commercial operation of laser-based nuclear fusion, we can achieve safe and affordable clean energy faster.

It’s hardly a secret that nuclear fusion has had a rough time when it comes to its image in the media: the miracle power source that is always ‘just ten years away’. Even if no self ...

Light is now used for everything from laser eye surgery to telephone technology ... will compress to the point where they achieve nuclear fusion. "The goal is to create a miniature star in ...

Welcome back to our ongoing "Interplanetary Series." In our previous installments, we looked at what it would take to live on ...

Bernard Bigot, a French scientist leading a vast international effort to demonstrate that nuclear fusion can be a viable ...

This reaction is a viable candidate for fusion energy, as it is known to have the largest cross section at ... ratio is of fundamental interest from a nuclear and plasma physics perspective ...

Despite the name, it has been established in Star Wars canon that these ancient weapons of the Jedi are, in fact, not laser swords ... in trying to harness nuclear fusion power, in which atomic ...

[Dan]’s fusor is surprisingly simple to make. Obviously, the most important part is the vacuum chamber which in this build is based around a glass oil cup cylinder. With just a few roughly ...

The APS April Meeting is one of the largest physics meetings in the world. The meeting covers particle physics, astrophysics, nuclear physics, plasma fusion ... waves by the Laser Interferometer ...

'Heat sink' filled with molten salt proposed by researchers to turn fusion energy into electricity without bringing power ...