Engineers at the UK’s STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) program have successfully tested ...

Nuclear fusion has long promised virtually limitless low carbon power, but the machines that might deliver it are notoriously hard to build and even harder to fix. A new generation of “plug and socket ...

Experiments show fusion plasma can stay stable at higher densities by controlling reactor walls, challenging long-standing limits.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor, as seen on September 18, 2015 at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in ...

The machines at their center, called tokamaks, have evolved from experimental curiosities into instruments capable of ...

The giant magnet prior to the unveiling ceremony at General Atomics. (Photo by JW August/Times of San Diego) Sitting inside a building in a Poway industrial park is the result of nearly 20 years of ...

Person wearing lab coat, safety goggles, and gloves holds a piece of black paper held by metal clamps Postdoctoral researcher Shichen Xu examines the carbon paper platform that holds powdered magnet ...

To many businesses and people in the energy industry, fusion is presently the Holy Grail everybody is chasing. If, somehow, our species manages to replicate the process that powers the Sun, we might ...

In a significant step forward for the development of high-temperature superconductors (HTS) for fusion applications, researchers from the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

The first of 24 gyrotrons has been installed on the top floor of the ITER experimental fusion reactor under construction in Cadarache, southern France. Meanwhile, General Atomics has completed the six ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems said Tuesday at CES 2026 that it has installed the first superconducting magnet for its Sparc fusion reactor, a key milestone for the experimental system the company aims ...

A twisting ribbon of hydrogen gas, many times hotter than the surface of the sun, has given scientists a tentative glimpse of the future of controlled nuclear fusion—a so-far theoretical source of ...