Commonwealth Fusion Systems is trying to bring a long-promised technology to reality. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When in operation, this space inside the Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor contains plasma hotter than the sun. Paolo Verzone Wearing ...

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 ...

Canadian startup General Fusion has been working on its unique approach to producing clean energy through nuclear fusion for two decades, and it's now got something major to show for it. The company ...

A 13-foot robot nicknamed Godzilla is being engineered to assemble components inside ITER, the massive fusion reactor taking ...

A decades-old scientific controversy and a small bench-top apparatus at the University of British Columbia (UBC) could be the key to more efficient fusion reactors by increasing the chances of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun-mimicking technology known as nuclear fusion hopes to create “limitless” energy by smashing light nuclei together using ...

In the hills of southern France, far from daily political drama and market headlines, a single engineering move is quietly reshaping what “possible” looks like for nuclear fusion. At the ITER site ...

The world’s newest flagship fusion machine has barely finished proving it can work, and already it is heading into a long pause. After a high profile debut campaign that cost hundreds of millions of ...