In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at new advances in fusion power, how the new budget bill undermines clean ...

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream ...

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

"This is similar to pushing a child on a swing." Scientists achieve 'world first' by heating plasma to multimillion degree ...

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

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has agreed to purchase 200 megawatts of power from Commonwealth Fusion System’s planned first ...

Earlier this month, OpenStar Technologies announced it had managed to create superheated plasma at temperatures of around 300,000 degrees Celsius, or 540,000 degrees Fahrenheit — one necessary ...

Physicists fill its insides with a not-so-tasty jam of superheated plasma. Then they surround it with magnets in the hopes of crushing atoms together to create energy, just as the sun does.

An accretion disk is a ring of superheated plasma, or ionized gas, that spins around a black hole's event horizon, the boundary beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape.

The research team created a spinning disk of plasma that mimics the superheated gas in accretion disks that gradually feed black holes. Comments (0) When you purchase through links on our site, we ...