Why Nuclear Fusion Will Not Solve the AI Power Problem
With the supposed need for vast new electricity generation to fuel the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, AI companies are…
What MIT Physicist Nuno Loureiro Was Working on Before Fatal Shooting
The fatal shooting of professor Nuno Loureiro of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has prompted an outpouring…
Plasma Turbulence Is Doing Surprising Things Inside Fusion Reactors
The interiors of fusion reactors can get seriously chaotic. But for obvious reasons—like extreme temperatures and pressures—researchers aren’t…
World’s largest fusion device solves key plasma heat loss challenge
For decades, physicists have been puzzled by a phenomenon inside fusion reactors that defies conventional theory: heat escaping…
Helium-3 Could Be the Most Valuable Resource in Space and Nations Are Now Racing to Mine It on the Moon
Lovell City Moon base as imagined in the TV Series The Expanse. Credit: The Expanse The Moon is…
Ever Wondered What Nuclear Fusion Looks Like? We Have Pics
Nuclear fusion may always be ten years away, but the technological breakthroughs aiming to get us there are…
Scientists Just Took a Giant Step Toward Scaling Up Nuclear Fusion
A team of researchers at MIT think they may have lowered one of the major barriers to achieving…
Physicists Smash Record With Magnetic Field 700,000 Times Stronger Than Earth’s
Under the right conditions, superconducting magnets allow electricity to flow essentially undisturbed, producing intense magnetic fields for a…
Chinese physicists produce most powerful stable magnetic field on Earth
An all-superconducting magnet built by Chinese scientists has generated a world-record steady magnetic field of 35.1 tesla, about…
Government lab makes breakthrough that sounds like something from science fiction: ‘Exciting results’
A team of researchers has designed an exhaust system that dramatically reduces the extreme heat found inside fusion…