For decades, nuclear fusion has held the promise of clean, limitless energy. However, one persistent challenge has slowed progress: the inability to reliably contain the high-energy particles needed ...

A French nuclear fusion reactor has smashed a world record by holding plasma at 50 million degrees Celsius for 22 minutes ...

Fusion power has long been promised as a clean, abundant energy source, but scientists have struggled to harness it effectively. A new approach, however, may finally bring fusion reactors closer to ...

Who will be the first to feed fusion power into the grid? From Germany to China, the United States to France, more than 50 ...

Cold fusion, one of the most notorious blunders in science, is making a return – of sorts. Scientists have resurrected an experiment that was once claimed to show room-temperature nuclear fusion, ...

So far, bottling the power of stars for human consumption is looking much harder than scientists anticipated ... breaking apart before fusion occurred. New research in the 1990s suggested a way around ...