Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time ...

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their colleagues recently developed two artificial intelligence technologies to help improve the performance of nuclear fusion generation. Despite ...

Lithium is considered a key ingredient in the future commercial fusion power plants known as tokamaks, and there are several ways to use this metal to enhance the process. But a key question remained: ...

Using a small bench-top reactor, researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have demonstrated that electrochemically loading a solid metal target with deuterium fuel can boost nuclear ...

The University of Houston lands $8M grant to advance compact fusion reactors. HOUSTON — The University of Houston has received an $8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to fund fusion ...

The alchemist's dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done? The physics needed to explain how to change one element into another is well understood and has been used for decades in ...

In the universe, thermonuclear fusion is a common reaction: it is the source of energy for stars. On Earth, producing energy using this process is difficult due to problems with controlling the plasma ...