At the heart of our sun, fusion is unfolding. As hydrogen atoms merge to form helium, they emit energy, producing the heat ...

China has been investing billions in nuclear fusion research. A potential game-changer for global energy, fusion has been ...

Last week, the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory made nuclear fusion history. At 1 a.m. Pacific on December 5, scientists fired the world’s most energetic lasers to ...

The quest to make fusion power a reality recently took a massive step forward. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced the results of an experiment ...

A picture shows the winding facility for the construction of poloidal field coils which will be part of the magnetic system that will contribute to confine and model plasma during the launch of the ...

The US Department of Energy announced Tuesday that scientists at a national lab — for the first time ever — have generated more energy from nuclear fusion than the process took to start. Fusion, which ...

What if scientists could harness the extraordinarily powerful process that fuels the sun to generate clean energy here on Earth? In a potentially historic milestone, they are taking a step towards ...

US Department of Energy scientists produced a nuclear fusion reaction with a net energy gain. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility achieved the milestone on December 5.