Nuclear fusion has long been the energy world’s moonshot, a reaction so powerful and so difficult to tame that many physicists once doubted it would ever be harnessed on Earth. Yet in the past few ...

Surprise! Fusion startup Zap Energy says it will be developing fission reactors alongside its fusion devices.

When it comes to alternative power sources, nuclear fusion is still a dream scenario. While using nuclear fusion to create commercial-scale energy has yet to be achieved, scientists say it could ...

Zap Energy, the Seattle-area startup that has spent nearly a decade chasing fusion power through an unconventional plasma ...

While nuclear power plants have become ubiquitous, they all operate using nuclear fission — but one energy startup has plans to change this. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a spinoff branch of the ...

The science news ecosystem repeats unfounded claims about nuclear fusion. OpenStar’s reactor has an unusual design, but it’s just as unproven as all the others. Their reactor has a central magnet ...

A decades-old scientific controversy and a small bench-top apparatus at the University of British Columbia (UBC) could be the key to more efficient fusion reactors by increasing the chances of a ...

Four years into Russia’s war with Ukraine, nearly all ties between Russian and European science have been severed. Russian scientists were expelled from CERN, a particle-physics lab in Geneva. A joint ...

The world is using more and more power — the demand for electricity is increasing at about twice the rate of overall energy use. And it’s only going to grow as the global population is expected to ...

Nuclear-powered alchemy could even be key to transitioning the world away from fossil fuels, according to one San Francisco ...

Fusion energy has the potential to be an effective clean energy source, as its reactions generate incredibly large amounts of energy. Fusion reactors aim to reproduce on Earth what happens in the core ...