The world’s largest and most powerful superconducting electromagnet is ready to become the pulsing “heart” inside of a ...

Recent fusion breakthroughs have generated interest from investors like Sam Altman and Bill Gates—along with some unrealistic ...

The dream of humanity to imitate the forces that created their habitat has been alive for at least as far back as the time ...

What’s the difference between nuclear fission and nuclear fusion? Both are nuclear processes, in that they involve nuclear forces to change the nucleus of atoms. Chemical processes on the other hand ...

Doing something for the first time is tough. Yet to replicate the nuclear fusion process that powers the very stars, and do it right here on Earth in a controlled and sustained fashion is ...

In an unassuming industrial park 30 miles outside Boston, engineers are building a futuristic machine to replicate the energy that powers the stars. If all goes to plan, it could be the key to ...

The amount of energy produced from fusion is very large — four times as much as nuclear fission reactions — and fusion reactions can be the basis of future fusion power reactors. Plans call for ...

In the case of thermonuclear weapons, which were developed after World War II and use a combination of both nuclear fission ...

making it a non-nuclear hydrogen-based explosive. On the other hand, a hydrogen bomb, also known as a thermonuclear bomb, uses a combination of two processes: fission and fusion. As explained by ...

An international team of scientists has identified an unexpected region of heavy, neutron-deficient isotopes in the nuclear chart where nuclear fission is predominantly governed by an asymmetric mode.

Such issues have led to a resurgence of interest in a third nuclear option, which combines aspects of both technologies in the form of the fusion–fission hybrid reactor. The fusion–fission ...

An international team of scientists has identified an unexpected region of heavy, neutron-deficient isotopes in the nuclear chart where nuclear fission is predominantly governed by an asymmetric mode.