For decades, scientists have been working to develop reactors that can achieve fusion to meet the increasing need for clean and limitless energy. The success of such experiments depends on multiple ...

A Sweden-based firm has launched a plasma confinement project to achieve commercially viable fusion energy. The TauEB project by Novatron Fusion Group aims to revolutionize plasma confinement and ...

Magnetic confinement fusion represents a promising avenue for realising sustainable and high‐yield energy production. In these systems, plasma – a highly ionised state of matter – is contained within ...

Fusion startups are racing to prove that they can bottle the power of the stars without the sprawling magnets or precision ...

Scientists have developed a new approach to fusion plasma control inspired by the Japanese art of kintsugi. The approach involves tailoring magnetic field imperfections to improve plasma stability ...

For decades, nuclear fusion has been described as the holy grail of clean power, a way to generate vast amounts of energy by ...

A research group has achieved a new plasma confinement regime using small 3D magnetic perturbations that simultaneously suppress edge instabilities and enhance core plasma confinement in the ...

Scientists are embracing imperfection, using less-than-ideal magnetic fields to make the plasma more manageable. In the Japanese art of Kintsugi, an artist takes the broken shards of a bowl and fuses ...

(Editor’s note: The following article originally appeared in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in October, 1971. It is reprinted here in full in November 2024—so readers can get a sense of how ...

Plasma propulsion transforms an inert propellant – often hydrogen – into plasma, a superheated mix of ions and electrons.

We are in the middle of a long-term geopolitical race as China, Europe and the U.K. continue pouring billions into fusion ...