National Geographic Explorer Paolo Verzone provides a rare peek inside a stellarator, an experiment that aims to give the world near-limitless clean energy. When in operation, this space inside the ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. and the Soviet Union competed across nearly every arena, including space. The rivalry shifted dramatically on Oct. 4, 1957, when the U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik, the ...

Claims of “net energy gain” in fusion experiments often exclude the massive energy consumed by the full system, leading to misleading headlines. Even under optimistic timelines, commercial fusion ...

President Donald Trump’s failing social media tech bid has tirelessly tried to reinvent itself into a viable business. The company, which owns Trump’s online megaphone Truth Social and is being run by ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Scientists and companies have been trying for decades to harness fusion energy, the process that fires the sun, to generate electricity on Earth. Fusion energy, the ...

Trump Media just announced a $6 billion deal with an Alphabet-backed outfit that would create one of the first publicly traded fusion companies. Reading time 2 minutes The parent company of Truth ...

Trump Media & Technology Group, the social media and crypto company part owned by President Trump, said it would help develop a “utility-scale fusion power plant.” By Matthew Goldstein Jonathan Wolfe ...

What if the key to solving the world’s energy crisis was hidden in a process so ambitious, so technically demanding, that even experts once dismissed it as science fiction? For decades, nuclear fusion ...

The promise of nuclear fusion feels simple. Just as stars fuse hydrogen into heavier elements to produce energy, a fusion reactor generates massive amounts of energy by combining lightweight particles ...

GREIFSWALD, GERMANY - OCTOBER 29: A worker explains a photo taken about a year and a half ago that shows construction of the interior plasma chamber of the Wendelstein 7-X experimental fusion reactor ...

The University of California has awarded $8 million in multicampus research grants, in partnership with UC-managed national laboratories, to accelerate progress toward a future powered by abundant, ...