Once a government-led pursuit, nuclear fusion is now a private-capital race, much of it financed by the same people building ...

Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the Sun, has the potential to generate clean and abundant energy. However, it requires two atomic nuclei to collide head-on at high energies, and current fusion ...

In late 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a historic nuclear fusion breakthrough by creating a fusion reaction that produced more energy than the lasers used to create it. This ...

We are currently witnessing a paradox of progress. Artificial Intelligence is hailed as the greatest productivity leap in human history, yet its ascent is physically tethered to a crumbling, ...

For most of the past 70 years, fusion energy has been shorthand for a promise that never quite arrived, a running joke about a technology that was always a few decades away. That timeline has shifted.