For decades, fusion energy was often seen as a concept from science fiction—a promise that seemed forever on the horizon.

Fusion power's big advantages would be that it’s a virtually limitless source of electricity that doesn’t add carbon to the ...

Experiments in the lab of Professor Farhat Beg at UC San Diego. Professor Beg is co-leading one of two teams of UC ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Arthur Pak (Co-PI) is the Lead for Strategic Development for the Inertial ...

In December 2022, inside a lab the size of a football field in California, 192 lasers fired simultaneously at a tiny gold capsule. For a fraction of a second, humankind achieved what the stars have ...

Local governments across Korea are scrambling to host an "artificial sun" research center to develop nuclear fusion, a ...

A $15 million U.S. Department of Energy award allowed UC San Diego Mechanical Engineering Professor Emeritus George Tynan to ...

Physicists at UC Santa Cruz will receive $555,000 of that to develop a literal gem of a monitoring system that such power plants will need to safely generate fusion energy—a system that incorporates ...

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has delivered a four-ton X-ray imaging crystal spectrometer to Japan's JT-60SA ...

Dalton’s reaction to Rocco is the biggest clue yet that the truth could upend everything, and have nothing to do with cold ...

Hosted by the University of California San Diego, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and General Atomics, with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, the ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers explore diamond-based sensors that could transform how future U.S. fusion reactors track plasma.