The dream of the ancient alchemists may come true as Marathon Fusion announces that its tokamak fusion reactor technology can turn common mercury into gold as a byproduct of fusion operations in ...

Fusion energy, the same process that powers the Sun and stars, has moved from a theoretical promise to an active engineering race. A handful of private startups, backed by billions in venture capital ...

Reactors designed to produce energy from the fusion of atoms could have an unexpected scientific side benefit. An international team of researchers has shown that low-mass dark-sector particles, such ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is trying to bring a long-promised technology to reality. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox ...

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A decades-old scientific controversy and a small bench-top apparatus at the University of British Columbia (UBC) could be the key to more efficient fusion reactors by increasing the chances of a ...

Fusion power has long been sold as the technology that could light our cities with the same process that powers the stars. Now a new line of research suggests those same reactors might also be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun-mimicking technology known as nuclear fusion hopes to create “limitless” energy by smashing light nuclei together using ...

In the hills of southern France, far from daily political drama and market headlines, a single engineering move is quietly reshaping what “possible” looks like for nuclear fusion. At the ITER site ...

Once complete, ITER will run fusion experiments using five times as much plasma as the largest reactors in operation today. Reading time 2 minutes Stakeholders around the world are vying to realize ...