The Sun generates its energy through a process called nuclear fusion. In its core, hydrogen atoms fuse together under the ...

The Nuclear Furnace at the Sun's Heart The temperature in the Sun's core is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million degrees Celsius), hot enough to make fusion reactions work perfectly. 5 ...

Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most ...

In a separate study, undergraduate student Levi Hancock utilized ptycho-tomography to image a single pillar of TPP foam just ...

Researchers have made a leap forward in the pursuit of clean, endless energy. A team at General Atomics, a U.S. Department of Energy-backed facility, has unveiled a key advance in nuclear fusion, the ...

China’s unwavering commitment to nuclear fusion energy has propelled it to the forefront of this revolutionary scientific pursuit, with its ‘artificial sun’ technology, specifically the Huanliu-3 ...

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 ...

Germany pivots to nuclear fusion, partnering with Focused Energy and RWE. Breakthroughs at Lawrence Livermore bring ...

The Thunderbird Reactor is a custom-made, bench-top-sized particle accelerator and electrochemical reactor built by an interdisciplinary team at the University of British Columbia. Using a small bench ...

The site for the “artificial sun (nuclear fusion) research facility,” dubbed the “energy source of dreams,” has been ...