Nuclear fusion, the process that powers our sun, happens when nuclear reactions between light elements produce heavier ones. It's also happening -- at a smaller scale -- in a lab. Using a compact but ...

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nuclear fission. Whereas the latter involves a process that happens all around us without any human involvement, and where ...

Monitoring antineutrino emissions from a fusion reactor could enable scientists and authorities to determine whether the ...

A team at the Colorado School of Mines is working to create hydrogen membranes for use in nuclear fusion power plants. The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects ...

Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the sun and other stars through the combination of two hydrogen atoms into one helium atom. In that process, part of the mass of the hydrogen is converted to ...

Nuclear fusion inches closer after scientists combine supercomputing, AI and quantum computing to blueprint a way to create ...

Nuclear fusion, the mechanism that powers the sun, is now reportedly one step closer to being understood by scientists thanks to a 3D visualization produced by one of the top laboratories in the world ...

The energy source that drives vesicle fusion with a target organelle in vivo has been unclear. It emerges that proteins that tether fusing structures together also decrease the energy needed for the ...

Fusion is the process of building up simple atoms into larger more complex ones. It releases a lot of energy, and occurs every day in the sun as well as every other star in the Universe. The trick for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. If you start with a mass of hydrogen gas and bring it together under ...