The rapid rise of AI is both straining global energy systems and accelerating the race to achieve commercial nuclear fusion, even as investment priorities shift away from traditional energy innovation ...

Fusion power promises to generate large amounts of clean electricity from nearly limitless fuel. This article explains the main approaches and the companies that use them.

The release of the complete 2026 March Madness bracket, backed by 10,000 simulations, marks a significant milestone in the fusion of sports and data science. As the tournament unf ...

We speak to Rob Akers, director for computing programmes at UK Atomic Energy Institute, about its new artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer.

The Uncertainty Engine is guiding research in fusion plasma physics. Could similar approaches benefit fission research as well?

The U.S. Department of Energy now has two major supercomputing systems aimed at accelerating fusion energy research through ...

For as long as scientists have been trying to understand the behavior of the electrically charged fourth state of matter known as plasma, there have ...

Fusion research company Helion Energy said its Polaris prototype has set new industry benchmarks, becoming the first privately developed fusion energy machine to demonstrate measurable ...

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 ...

There is a well-known saying among nuclear physicists that commercial nuclear fusion is about ten years away – and always will be. But a series of announcements by American startups and state-backed ...

An awe-inspiring science project by a Dallas ISD seventh-grader is now drawing national attention, as the student works to secure a Guinness World Record as the youngest person to achieve nuclear ...

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