Like engineers who design high-performance Formula One race cars, scientists want to create high-performance plasmas in twisty fusion systems known as stellarators. Achieving this performance means ...

Plasma many times hotter than the surface of the sun swirls inside of a large device. From the outside, the device looks like a metal ring surrounded by scaffolding and walkways. But inside, the ...

Fusion power can potentially provide the world with safe, clean, and renewable power. As recent advances in superconducting magnet fabrication and AI-enabled field optimization propel stellarators ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have made a breakthrough in enhancing the performance of ...

With the promise of fusion on full display after a U.S. lab achieved “ignition” late last year, fusion companies are raising capital to bring this next-gen green energy to life. Magnetic confinement ...

Investigation of a possibly critical issue with twisty magnetic stellarators, promising candidates to serve as models for a U.S. fusion pilot plant, has clarified the potential impact of a largely ...

Proxima Fusion, a two-year-old German nuclear fusion startup, has published plans for a working fusion power plant in a peer-reviewed journal, in what is being touted as an important change in the ...