In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at new advances in fusion power, how the new budget bill undermines clean ...

Right now, everyone is drooling over AI – and rightfully so. Artificial intelligence is already rewriting the rules of work, ...

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream ...

Although Google won’t have access to the power it’s buying for more than five years, making the purchase now is in Google’s ...

Scientists can now snap ultra-powerful laser pulses in one shot. RAVEN reveals distortions instantly, unlocking breakthroughs ...

In the frozen outskirts of the solar system, a reddish dwarf planet orbits in silence. Known as Sedna, it is so distant that ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford have unveiled a pioneering method for capturing the full structure of ultra-intense ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking technique called RAVEN that can capture the full complexity of an ultra-intense ...

The reactor under construction at Commonwealth Fusion Systems in Devens, Mass., is one of at least 43 private-industry ...

The implications are wide-reaching: Energy: Supports fast ignition schemes in laser-driven nuclear fusion. Medicine: Enables more compact and precise systems for proton cancer therapy.

energy nuclear Fusion breakthrough: NIF achieves 8.6 megajoules, shattering previous record Latest experiments more than doubles fusion energy output By Skye Jacobs May 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM 12 comments ...