Nuclear fusion

The step forward for fusion research comes as Bill Gates this week referred to fusion power as a "promising" energy source.

Scientists have chased viable fusion energy—the same process that powers the sun—for decades as it promises an almost unlimited source of clean power.

A company has become the first private entity to hit the blistering temperature required for fusion on earth, many times hotter than the hearts of stars.

New devices may have the ability to generate the high-temperature conditions needed to create plasma and initiate fusion, offering a pathway to fusion power.

The key difference between a nuclear explosion and a conventional explosion is the amount of energy that is released in their detonations.

Researchers have trained an AI program to control plasma in the hope that it will make potentially ground-breaking nuclear fusion a reality faster.

This latest breakthrough in the race for almost limitless clean power shows fusion energy is "no longer just a dream of the far future" one nuclear materials expert said.

This find brings us a step closer to using artificial suns to provide limitless clean energy.

The viral video purportedly shows a man-made object "5 times hotter than the sun" shooting up into the sky, with a crowd watching in awe.

China's EAST Tokamak reactor has broken fusion power records by maintaining superheated plasma for over 1,000 seconds, in the latest step towards almost limitless clean energy.

KSTAR, which aims to bring nuclear fusion down to Earth to meet humanity's clean energy needs, confined super-hot plasma for a record 30 seconds.

The magnet is strong enough to lift an aircraft carrier six feet into the air and weighs around 1,000 tons.

The base of what will be the world's biggest reactor has been put in position.

Algorithms are increasingly being deployed to predict disruptions that could potentially occur during fusion experiments and may help turn the long-discussed energy source into reality, experts say.

It is hoped the nuclear fusion device will help scientists overcome a key problem in harnessing plasma inside tokamaks.

The team at Los Alamos National Laboratory will fire "supersonic jets of ionized gas" at a chamber to compress fusion fuel.

That's six times as hot as the center of the sun and a major breakthrough for nuclear fusion.

Being able to control plasma that is hotter than the Sun is notoriously difficult.

Nuclear fusion takes place in the center of stars, but scientists are also attempting to reproduce it on Earth in the hopes of creating a clean and essentially unlimited power source that could replace fossil fuels.

Nuclear fusion isn't very efficient without the incredibly hot temperatures found on the sun.

"Finding a star can at times be harder than finding a planet."

Scientists may have solved one major problem that comes up when building a fusion reactor—runaway electrons.

Pyongyang has tested something, but it's unlikely to be a full-blown H-bomb.