When the first atomic bomb test, code-named “Project Trinity,” was conducted on July 16, 1945, civilization moved from the chemical era—during which atomic energy was outsourced to the sun—to the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Clean and sustainable nuclear energy may sound like a washed up, post-war dream, but the modern ...

This article honors Richard Lockshin, whose vision saw so deeply and so clearly into the mechanisms of what he coined ‘programmed cell death’ even without all the technological advances in microscopy ...

The future of nuclear power depends heavily on the effort put into research, experts agreed at the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) 2008 taking place in Barcelona, Spain this week. "Be it in the ...

Winterberg compares his Super Marx generator pure deuterium micro-detonation ignition concept to the Lawrence Livermore National Ignition Facility (NIF) Laser DT fusion-fission hybrid concept (LiFE) ...

The worldwide demand for energy continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. This, combined with the dwindling supply and increasing cost of fossil fuels plus the realization of the threat they pose to ...

There are three things worth knowing about this week’s startling announcement of a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology. First, this could one day offer a huge new source of energy. Second, it ...

The proposed hybrid reactor will use nuclear fusion to burn u-238 and could in theory recycle the waste from traditional reactors into new fuel. The project is being developed at the Chinese Academy ...

More than 110 countries and countless companies have pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, but can they get there with existing technologies? Probably not. But the net-zero equation is complex.

Fusion is among the most environmentally friendly sources of energy. There are no CO 2 or other harmful atmospheric emissions from the fusion process, which means that fusion does not contribute to ...