US fusion breakthrough cracks decades-old heat load mystery in tokamaks
New research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has indicated that the rotation of the plasma core…
Half-ton magnet aces world-first 1.8 million°F fusion plasma confinement
A 0.5-tonne superconducting magnet recently hovered silently inside a 5-meter-wide vacuum chamber, which marked a major milestone for…
US team’s fusion plasma heat control method to protect tokamak walls
Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have identified a new method to tame the destructive energy bursts…
Billion-times more efficient fusion unlocked with low-frequency laser
A team of researchers has identified a mechanism that could lower the extreme temperature requirements for controlled nuclear…
Smartphones and computers could get a big boost in performance, thanks to an accidental discovery
An illustrative image showing a chip with a high clock speed (Image source: AI-generated image) While researching a…
Amazon cloud powers US bid for autonomous next-gen nuclear reactors
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have established a collaboration to use artificial intelligence to…