Chinese scientists sustain plasma at 100 million degrees C for 1,066 seconds in EAST, advancing nuclear fusion research.

The Penn State Alumni Association recently won the Centre County Historical Society’s President’s Award for the historical ...

Humans are inching closer to living beyond Earth, but sustaining life on the moon or Mars requires a critical resource: water ...

Clarke’s team uses data from Hubble and MAVEN to monitor the current rate of hydrogen atom escape ... and a heavier isotope called deuterium. Deuterium contains a neutron in its nucleus, giving ...

Isotopes are atoms of the same element that have varying numbers of neutrons, which changes their mass -- the more neutrons, the heavier the atom. These measurements are particularly useful in ...

The periodic table organizes chemical elements based on atomic weight, electron configurations, and chemical properties, ...

Fusion technology is a long way from powering a grid — if it ever will. Dozens of fusion startups have launched anyway.

A "fast reactor" is a type of nuclear reactor that uses fast neutrons to sustain a chain reaction, while a "breeder reactor" is a specific design of fast reactor that produces more fissile fuel (like ...

Two lighter atoms were turned into plasma and forced to fuse into a heavier atom under 100,000,000 ... Scylla I was a cylinder full of deuterium, a hydrogen isotope still used today.