£13bn Iter project makes breakthrough in nuclear fusion

It may be the most ambitious scientific venture ever: a global collaboration to create an unlimited supply of clean, cheap energy. And this week it took a crucial step forward. Steve Connor reports. An idyllic...

Important breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology

THE QUEST for developing a nuclear fusion reactor has received a boost. In a crucial breakthrough, scientists in a joint project of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Columbia University in the United States successfully tested a novel way of confining plasma at...

Fusion Power a Step Closer After Giant Laser Blast

Fusion power is the holy grail of energy production and it just got a little bit closer.  A bank of lasers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have heated a fuel pellet to temperatures...

Cold fusion is back: scientists report evidence

Scientists at the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) in San Diego, California, reported scientific evidence supporting the existence of cold fusion at a meeting of the American Chemical Society at Salt Lake City in Utah, United States, on Monday.The...

Laser vision fuels energy future

"When the first lasers were developed in the 1960s they were described as "a solution looking for a problem." Today, the beams of light are ubiquitous, crammed into everything from CD players and phone networks to supermarket checkouts and research laboratories. They have...

Achieve nuclear fusion. At home.

Have you ever wanted to achieve nuclear fusion with equipment you built at home? I know I haven't. But Thiago Olson has and so he did. He researched eBay, and went to the hardware store and picked up equipment:...

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