In Anhui Province, on Friday, March 20, 2026, China's “Artificial Sun” (EAST) entered a new phase of development.

Physicists are getting closer to creating a long-sought ‘nuclear clock’. This device would keep time by measuring energy transitions in the nuclei of atoms and could become the most precise clock on ...

It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star. The lower limit is around 7 to 8 percent of the sun’s mass; any less than that, and there isn’t ...

The Department of Energy’s Office of Science is being ‘realigned’ following a broader restructuring of the agency.

The governments of the Middle East should consider investments in nuclear fusion—not least because of its likely impact on hydrocarbons once introduced.

UKAEA and Eni have partnered with Kinectrics to design the H3AT Tritium Loop Facility, advancing tritium fuel cycle technologies for fusion power by 2030.

The European Union is investing in its efforts to secure a cleaner, more independent energy future with a €330 million ...

A video taken by tiny drones sent into one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant shows a ...

Nuclear fusion energy could become commercially viable by the early 2030s as scientists work to replicate the sun's power, ...

Nuclear fusion is attracting a surge of funding from public and private investors dazzled by the prospect of generating clean ...

A clear explanation of how nuclear fusion and fission work, and why fusion releases more energy by combining atoms instead of splitting them.

We speak to Rob Akers, director for computing programmes at UK Atomic Energy Institute, about its new artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer.