China’s flagship fusion experiment has pushed plasma density beyond a limit that many physicists treated as a hard ceiling, jolting a field that has chased star power for decades. By holding an ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), dubbed China's "artificial sun," has ...

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 million gigapascals. Think about this: the ...

China’s latest experiments with its so‑called “artificial sun” have pushed nuclear fusion into territory many physicists long ...

An international milestone in energy research has been achieved with the successful sustaining of a fusion reaction for 100 seconds in an “artificial sun” experiment. This breakthrough represents a ...

China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible - Breakthrough marks significant progress towards achieving ‘holy grail’ of clean energy ...

Engineers in the United Kingdom are racing to build metal shields that can survive conditions similar to the center of the ...

China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion milestone and potentially bringing humanity closer to wielding near-limitless clean ...

Scientists in China have made a breakthrough with fusion energy that could finally overcome one of the most stubborn barriers to realising the next-generation energy source. A team from the Chinese ...