Bill Gates is backing efforts to recreate the same process that powers the sun, and at least one major tech company has ...

A fusion reactor in southern France achieved a significant milestone toward clean, limitless energy. The fusion reactor, WEST, created a super-hot plasma and sustained it for a record-breaking 6 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in South Korea have announced a new world record for the length of time they sustained temperatures of 100 million ...

The temperature in the Sun's core is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million degrees Celsius), hot enough to make fusion reactions work perfectly. 5 million gigapascals. Think about this: the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) – also called ‘artificial sun’ - has achieved the milestone of 1,006 ...

A pictorial rendition of the proton-proton fusion chain in the Sun. The fusion of a proton with beryllium-7 produces a boron-8 nucleus that later decays emitting neutrinos that can be detected on ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak achieved a remarkable scientific milestone by maintaining steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for an impressive 1,066 seconds. The ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority's retired Bull Run Fossil Plant may be out of a job, but a leading fusion company wants to use the site for research that could one day replace coal with the power of ...

Recent White House and Energy Department pronouncements on speeding up the “commercialization” of fusion energy are so over the top as to make you wonder about the scientific competence in the upper ...