A fusion company has made a few light bulbs glow by converting plasma straight into electricity for the very first time. The ...

Imagine trying to trap a miniature star inside a machine without letting it touch the walls or burn itself out. This is the ...

The exhaust heat generated by a fusing plasma in a commercial-scale reactor may not be as damaging to the vessel's innards as once thought, according to new research about escaping plasma particles.

Researchers were unsure whether alpha particles would aid or hinder fusion. Simulations suggest they help, by dampening turbulence.

The achievement shows kinetic energy from charged exhaust particles can be converted into useful electricity, but it's still not a working commercial reactor.

Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing atoms. When plasma particles escape the core of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese scientists have unveiled a superconducting linear plasma device designed to test materials for nuclear fusion reactors.

3D visualization of an ELM in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamk as simulated with the MEGA code. The tokamak volue is colored according to the ELM structure. TheELM interacts with the energetic particle whose ...

Fashioned from the same element found in sand and covered by intricate patterns, microchips power smartphones, augment appliances and aid the operation of cars and airplanes. Now, scientists are ...

You can now see how nuclear fusion takes place in a doughnut-shaped receptacle called a tokamak, thanks to a new 3D visualization by the École Spéciale de Lausanne. Nuclear fusion is the reaction that ...