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

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’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 ...

Fast radio bursts are one of the biggest cosmic mysteries of our time. They're extremely powerful but extremely brief ...

And as the country has the largest nuclear stockpile on the planet with nearly 6,000 warheads, the world might be holding its breath. One of the horror weapons in its arsenal has been dubbed ...

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 ...

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 ...

We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can ...

[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 ...

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

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 ...

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