China’s EAST reactor just broke a fundamental fusion limit—bringing the dream of ignition a big step closer. shutterstock.

A breakthrough experiment revealed how plasma turbulence spreads heat inside fusion reactors, solving a decades-old problem ...

Chinese researchers at the EAST tokamak achieved a theoretically predicted regime with plasma densities above the previous ...

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has pushed fusion research into a new regime by holding a high density ...

China is racing forward in its effort to pave the way in fusion energy science, and state-sponsored media reported earlier this week that one of the country’s next-gen reactors is now under ...

A new theory suggests fusion reactors could help scientists search for axions, mysterious particles that may explain dark ...

SMART (Small Aspect Ratio Tokamak), the world's only fusion reactor with 'negative triangularity' constructed at the University of Sevilla in Spain, produced its first plasma. This is an important ...

The necessary technical advances are likely 15 to 20 years away, but research yields quick dividends.

Fusion power has long been sold as the technology that could light our cities with the same process that powers the stars.

Reactors designed to produce energy from the fusion of atoms could have an unexpected scientific side benefit.

The interiors of fusion reactors can get seriously chaotic. But for obvious reasons—like extreme temperatures and pressures—researchers aren’t typically able to peek directly inside a reactor. Some ...

Type One Energy, a University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear fusion spinoff company, is partnering with the Tennessee Valley ...