Investments in this field could transform how we generate power. Google-backed project gets big funding boost in pursuit of ...

Published in the Physical Review Letters, the study presents a new family of optimized fields that display tokamak-like ...

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream of controlled nuclear fusion may be within reach ...

The company raised $425 million in January 2025, around the same time that it turned on Polaris, a prototype reactor. Helion ...

With their innovative design, tokamak reactors are leading the charge in fusion research, aiming to unlock the potential of ...

Despite the excruciatingly slow pace of fusion power development, Google is willing to bet on this theoretical energy source ...

Crucially, as the plasma energy decreased, the magnetic field lines were able to snap back. This compressed the plasma into a straight, narrow column not unlike a quasar's relativistic jet.

Providing capabilities found nowhere else in the world as it probes the physics behind magnetic reconnection, the Facility ...

Google has agreed to purchase 200 megawatts of fusion energy from Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). That's assuming, of ...

General Fusion has been working on its unique approach to producing clean energy for two decades, and it's now got something major to show for it. The company has created plasma in its prototype ...

For instance, scientists suspected certain S-shaped bends in the sun's magnetic field packed a lot of magnetic energy that is released into the surrounding plasma, heating it up and accelerating ...

Plasma—the electrically charged fourth state of matter—is at the heart of many important industrial processes, including those used to make computer chips and coat materials.