A 0.5-tonne superconducting magnet recently hovered silently inside a 5-meter-wide vacuum chamber, which marked ...

The stakes of the “race to fusion” are dramatic. Commercial fusion has the potential to deliver nearly unlimited energy by ...

A UK firm has announced a world-first set of “super” magnets that can be used for testing nuclear fusion power plants. Tokamak Energy said the Demo4 magnet has a magnetic field strength that is nearly ...

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

China breaks a historic barrier in nuclear fusion, bringing the dream of nearly infinite energy closer to reality.

Fusion energy, an emerging technology that backers hope will one day generate electricity without producing long-lived ...

Proxima Fusion, spun out of Germany’s Max Planck Institute (the team behind the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator), raised a record €130 million in 2025, later extended to €200 million. It’s fast emerging ...

Proxima Fusion, Europe's fastest-growing fusion energy company, has signed an agreement with the Free State of Bavaria, RWE, and Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) to put the world's first ...

About 60 years ago, Russian physicist Lev Artsimovich said nuclear fusion “will be ready when society needs it”. The UK has achieved a “major breakthrough for fusion energy research”, the UK Atomic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, scientists have dreamed of unlocking the power of the stars—a clean, limitless energy source that could end our ...

The research in this week’s report investigates new energy storage materials and processes and advanced nuclear and fusion power ...