Some major news broke recently about net positive energy gain using lasers for nuclear fusion ignition. As exciting as that news is, there was some nuance to the fusion ignition announcement that got ...

Prof. Nuno Filipe Gomes Loureiro was shot multiple times in his own home on December 15, 2025, and died in hospital the ...

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Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the Sun, has the potential to generate clean and abundant energy. However, it requires two atomic nuclei to collide head-on at high energies, and current fusion ...

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists has taken a major step toward creating a clean, reliable and powerful source of energy. Four years in the making, it is part of a broader approach ...

Nuclear fusion has long promised clean, limitless energy—but decades of investment have yet to produce a viable power plant. This video explores the major engineering and economic hurdles that ...