If, way back in 1911, I had told you that a newly discovered principle could create a conductor that would carry electricity over any distance with virtually no loss of power you would have said ...

A theory of nuclear reactions that was long abandoned may not only be right, but may mean that certain kinds of fusion reactors would be more efficient than people hoped. Henry Weller, a physicist at ...

Most of the energy from the sun and other stars comes from a chain of nuclear fusion reactions. The end of this chain is marked by the fusion of protons with beryllium-7 to form boron-8. This process ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide $9 million for new theoretical and computational research on magnetic fusion energy science. Research to be ...

For decades, the answer to when fusion power would arrive was like the punchline to an oft-repeated joke — it was always 10 or 20 years away. Now, it might actually be on the cusp of commercialization ...

A physicist at the University of Cincinnati was able to crack a problem that was presented as unsolvable in the famous sitcom, ‘The Big Bang Theory’. Professor Jure Zupan and colleagues figured out ...

The 28th Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2020) will take place in Nice, France, from 12 to 17 October 2020, organized by the IAEA, in cooperation with France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy ...

A pictorial rendition of the proton-proton fusion chain in the Sun. The fusion of a proton with beryllium-7 produces a boron-8 nucleus that later decays emitting neutrinos that can be detected on ...