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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The sun-mimicking technology known as nuclear fusion hopes to create “limitless” energy by smashing light nuclei together using immense heat, but ...

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have reignited efforts to develop a small nuclear reactor for deployment on the Moon by the end of the decade. Designed to power long-term lunar missions, ...

Two billion years before we made history and split the atom, the Earth had already accomplished it and was running its own nuclear reactors. And they operated for hundreds of thousands of years, as ...

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, from shopping assistants on Amazon, to replacing search engines like Google. While ChatGPT might make it easy to put together a shopping list or travel plans, it ...

Researchers using China’s “artificial sun” fusion reactor have broken through a long-standing density barrier in fusion plasma. The experiment confirmed that plasma can remain stable even at extreme ...