How the world’s biggest laser smashed a nuclear-fusion record The US National Ignition Facility is the only laboratory where a nuclear-fusion reaction has generated more energy than it consumed.

In December 2022, inside a lab the size of a football field in California, 192 lasers fired simultaneously at a tiny gold capsule. For a fraction of a second, humankind achieved what the stars have ...

Three years ago, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California had a scientific breakthrough: As they fired lasers at a tiny pellet of fuel, they achieved fusion “ignition” for ...

The breakthrough scientific moment for fusion power—and the potential for nearly limitless electricity from a so-called star in a jar—came at the end of 2022 when scientists at Lawrence Livermore ...

While nuclear fusion has achieved key milestones, transforming it into a practical energy source requires solving complex ...

In the heart of Provence, Southern France, the world's largest fusion energy experiment, which could be a step towards unlimited energy, has quietly entered perhaps the most critical stage yet. The ...

SHANGHAI, Oct. 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Shanghai Electric (SEHK: 2727, SSE: 601727) has recently announced several key milestones in the field of controlled nuclear fusion, including the delivery of ...

The final section of what scientists and engineers say will be the largest and most powerful pulsed, superconducting magnet in the world has been completed at the Poway campus of San Diego-based ...

China’s HL-3 fusion device in Chengdu has surpassed 100m degrees, achieving key plasma stability and energy retention for ...

T he Sun shone brightly on Livermore, California, on 8 June 2011, when researchers charged up the world’s largest laser for its first major fusion experiment. It might have seemed like a good omen for ...