In the universe, thermonuclear fusion is a common reaction: it is the source of energy for stars. On Earth, producing energy using this process is difficult due to problems with controlling the plasma ...

Los Alamos National Lab team is modelling the efficiency and cost of reactor designs that can generate tritium from waste ...

A more esoteric use might be powering spacecraft. Existing craft destined for other planets use nuclear batteries—low-wattage ...

Here on Earth, our planet practically overflows with life. After more than 4 billion years, life has spread to practically every niche of our planets surface, from the deepest depths of the ocean ...

"The accurate determination of the gamma-ray-to-neutron branching ratio for the deuterium-tritium reaction paves the way for using absolute gamma ray counting as a secondary and neutron-independent ...

Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected.

Industry supporters range from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, spearheaded by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, to former Energy ...

The first chemical reactions in the wake of the Big Bang have been recreated for the first time in conditions similar to those in the baby Universe. A team of physicists led by Florian Grussie of the ...

Over 43 startups companies are working on nuclear fusion and they have received over $6 billion in funding. This does not include the international and national Tokomak fusion programs. The IEEE ...

The recent Lawrence Livermore breakthrough, in which scientists created more energy from a fusion reaction than it took to create it, has uses applicable to space exploration. Fusion, harnessing the ...

Researchers have solved for a key variable in a reaction that happened very early after the Big Bang. By blasting protons into a deuterium cloud, the scientists simulated the way early elements bonded ...