Fiber optic technology has reshaped the way data moves around the world. From undersea cables connecting continents to local ...

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nuclear fission. Whereas the latter involves a process that happens all around us without any human involvement, and where ...

American scientists have announced what they have called a major breakthrough in a long-elusive goal of creating energy from nuclear fusion. The U.S. Department of Energy said on Dec. 13, 2022, that ...

Construction continues in 2025 on the ITER fusion device, which is designed to prove that fusion can be a large-scale, carbon-free source of energy. (Photo: ITER) Fusion offers a promising clean ...

About 60 years ago, Russian physicist Lev Artsimovich said nuclear fusion “will be ready when society needs it”. The UK has achieved a “major breakthrough for fusion energy research”, the UK Atomic ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced on Dec. 13 “the achievement of fusion ignition.” The milestone is a major scientific breakthrough, decades in the making. Fusion, of course, is the ...

SLAC's Alan Fry, Arianna Gleason, and Siegfried Glenzer help lead the lab's fusion energy research. Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory SLAC's Alan Fry, Arianna Gleason, and ...