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

A new Zap research paper, published last week in Nuclear Fusion, details neutron isotropy measurements from the FuZE device that provide the best validation yet that Zap’s sheared-flow-stabilized Z ...

Ariel Cohen is a D.C.-based contributor who covers energy and security A fusion reaction does not contradict the known fundamentals of physics. The problems scientists encounter are one of ...

The MIT research team believes that the future of nuclear fusion depends on understanding the mysteries of plasma. Therefore, ...

Hybrids in fusion research Fusion research has now been going on for about half a century, with most of the attention focused on understanding the plasma physics required to confine and heat a ...

A meaningful measurement, in more ways than one Besides being a key benchmark for physics progress, neutron isotropy holds extra historical significance for Zap's fusion approach. The Z pinch is ...

In physics, the term "isotropy" means a system where the properties are the same in all directions. For fusion, neutron energy isotropy is an important measurement that analyzes the streams of ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak in Heifei, China, a testbed for the long-awaited (and now delayed) International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), successfully contained ...

Jon Chase explains the nuclear fusion that causes stars like our sun ... This short film will be relevant for teaching physics. This topic appears in OCR, Edexcel, AQA, WJEC KS4/GCSE in England ...

(Image: Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany) The first fusion reactions in a laboratory were achieved in 1934 — a major breakthrough at the time. Today, however, achieving a fusion ...

Scientists have succeeded in maintaining an "artificial sun" here on Earth for a whopping 17 minutes and 46 seconds.

Hot stuff The first plasma at the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak. (Courtesy: University of Seville) A novel fusion device based at the University of Seville in Spain has achieved its first plasma. The ...