Aurora, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, is now being used to ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued its first construction permit for a commercial nuclear reactor in eight ...

A persistent asymmetry in fusion exhaust has challenged researchers for years. New simulations show that plasma core rotation, working together with cross-field drifts, determines where particles land ...

Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing atoms. When plasma particles escape the core of the ...

New Zealand-based fusion energy startup OpenStar Technologies says it has become the first commercial company in the world to successfully create and confine plasma using a levitated dipole reactor.

Driven by the need for new energy, Germany has committed €1.7 billion in funding and partnered with companies like Proxima Fusion and RWE to build the world's first commercial stellarator fusion ...

Giant X-ray lasers do a lot for physics. These powerful instruments can probe the interiors of tiny molecules, recreate the extreme conditions in stellar cores, and now, describe the plasmas inside ...

We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among scientists. But if we were to ever come to an answer in the form of alien biology or ...

Barack Obama seemingly confirmed the existence of aliens in a podcast, though he later walked back his comments on Instagram. Congress has held multiple hearings on UFOs, now called UAPs, since 2023, ...

HELSINKI, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Finnish nuclear development group Steady Energy has begun building a pilot plant in Helsinki that aims to pave the way for Europe's first small nuclear heat reactor, the ...

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of nuclear safety experts on Friday completed a review of continued safe operation of the SAFARI-1 Research Reactor in Pelindaba, South Africa. The ...