A fusion company has made a few light bulbs glow by converting plasma straight into electricity for the very first time. The ...

Imagine trying to trap a miniature star inside a machine without letting it touch the walls or burn itself out. This is the ...

The achievement shows kinetic energy from charged exhaust particles can be converted into useful electricity, but it's still not a working commercial reactor.

The exhaust heat generated by a fusing plasma in a commercial-scale reactor may not be as damaging to the vessel's innards as once thought, according to new research about escaping plasma particles.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese scientists have unveiled a superconducting linear plasma device designed to test materials for nuclear fusion reactors.

South Korea’s KSTAR tokamak held high-confinement plasma continuously for 102 seconds during a campaign that ran from ...

3D visualization of an ELM in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamk as simulated with the MEGA code. The tokamak volue is colored according to the ELM structure. TheELM interacts with the energetic particle whose ...

Fashioned from the same element found in sand and covered by intricate patterns, microchips power smartphones, augment appliances and aid the operation of cars and airplanes. Now, scientists are ...