Zap Energy took the wraps off its latest fusion device Tuesday at a research meeting in Long Beach, California, the latest in ...

For decades, the dream of a virtually limitless, clean energy source has hovered just out of reach, more science fiction than ...

Experiments in the lab of Professor Farhat Beg at UC San Diego. Professor Beg is co-leading one of two teams of UC ...

Zap Energy’s FuZE-3 device has reached giga-pascal-level plasma pressures thanks to a novel design that independently tunes ...

FuZE-3 is Zap's first device to incorporate a third electrode to separate the forces that drive plasma acceleration and compression. Details of the preliminary results were presented today at the ...

For decades, fusion energy was often seen as a concept from science fiction—a promise that seemed forever on the horizon.

Physicists at UC Santa Cruz will receive $555,000 of that to develop a literal gem of a monitoring system that such power plants will need to safely generate fusion energy—a system that incorporates ...

Scientists in Germany have engineered new ODS alloys and tungsten materials to extend the lifespan of fusion reactor walls.

Newly introduced legislation in Congress seeks to empower U.S. competitiveness by extending the federal Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit (Section 45X) to cover critical components used in ...

The two great technology revolutions of the modern era — artificial intelligence and renewable energy — are colliding.

Nuclear fusion, which operates on the same principle that powers the sun, is expected to become a sustainable energy source ...