If nuclear fusion technology can be safely harnessed, it will provide a practically infinite source of clean energy. China's ...

France has upped to ante in the quest for fusion power by maintaining a plasma reaction for over 22 minutes – a new record.

Creating and sustaining fusion reactions—essentially recreating star-like conditions on Earth—is extremely difficult, and ...

China’s EAST reactor has achieved a new milestone by sustaining plasma at 100 million degrees Celsius for 1,066 seconds. This ...

Noah Haggerty is an environment, health and science reporter at the Los Angeles Times. With a background in physics, he has conducted research on spacecraft propulsion, fusion energy and plasma — the ...

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Fusion technology is a long way from powering a grid — if it ever will. Dozens of fusion startups have launched anyway.

Excitons, encountered in technologies like solar cells and TVs, are quasiparticles formed by an electron and a positively charged "hole," moving together in a semiconductor. Created when an electron ...

The Department of Physics and Biophysics at USD teaches students to explore the interactions of matter and energy from the simplicity of a molecule or a swinging pendulum to the complexity of nuclear ...

In a major development, satellite imagery analysis has revealed that China is developing a laser fusion research facility in Mianyang, a city in the southwestern region of the country. The scale ...

This three-year programme offers a variant of the advanced study offered in the Physics BSc. You will develop specialised knowledge of the theoretical structure of the core topics in physics. The ...