Tokamak, the artificial sun that defies the rules of the cosmos, is a sphere at 100 million degrees. It embodies our quest ...
Who could imagine a world without plasma TV screens? Or a blood test without measurements of key electrolytes, sodium, and potassium? Both technologies rely on the fields of radiometry and flame ...
Chinese scientists have unveiled a superconducting linear plasma device designed to test materials for nuclear fusion ...
But building a nuclear fusion reactor is a formidable challenge that will require fortified walls made of special materials ...
A frothy breakthrough at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), using lasers with a silver metal foam that's as light as air, has created the brightest yet X-ray source ever, twice as ...
The University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) is spearheading the IFE-STAR ecosystem, an initiative ...
China has announced the completion of a high-performance linear plasma generator, called SWORD (Superconducting Plasma Wall ...
The research institution behind this device, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...
According to Zhou, SWORD's successful development is poised to support research on China's next-generation experimental ...
Researchers are closing in on the potential of nuclear fusion, the process that powers the stars, as a clean and ...
Even once researchers can reliably get more power out of a fusion reaction than they put in, they'll still need to overcome engineering challenges to scale up fusion energy.
The way scientists think about fusion changed forever in 2022, when what some called the experiment of the century ...