Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time ...

Over 200 underwater bridge tunnels exist for vehicular traffic around the world, providing connectivity between cities. Once ...

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Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe ...

Research reveals how reducing dimensionality can trap heat, opening the door to high-efficiency energy devices.

Plasma is the "fourth state of matter" alongside solids, liquids, and gases. When a neutral gas is superheated, some of its ...

The global shift to sustainable energy necessitates advancements in material science, especially at the nanoscale level. The intersection of materials ...

Most of the money will go to teams working to close the gap between the private nuclear industry and research labs and ...

In December 2022, researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility in California conducted a controlled nuclear fusion experiment that, for the first ...

This new theory proposes that black holes could actually be tiny "bubbles". This involves the conversion of matter into dark ...

QROCODILE has set record-breaking sensitivity in the search for dark matter, detecting signals at energy levels once thought impossible. These results may be just the first step toward finally ...