First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective ...

If Sir Isaac Newton’s wildest dream is finally coming true, we could be on the brink of a new type of gold rush.

Clean energy from nuclear fusion may soon be commercial. But leaders around the world have done little to prepare.

A California startup is serving up nuclear fusion with a side of alchemy. San Francisco-based Marathon Fusion announced it has discovered a method to turn mercury into gold during the nuclear fusion ...

A new class of advanced steel, designed to withstand the extreme conditions inside a fusion energy reactor, needs further development after tests showed it swells under high radiation levels. The ...

Physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have successfully recreated a long-overlooked experiment from 1938 — one that ...

The alchemist's dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done? The physics needed to explain how to change ...

A new class of advanced steels needs more fine-tuning before use in system components for fusion energy—a more sustainable ...

The company is still working on a way to reliably generate energy from fusion with its prototype, called Polaris.

Helium hydride’s origin also marked the beginning of a chain reaction that led to the formation of molecular hydrogen (H2), ...

Helion Energy, a startup backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman and SoftBank's venture capital arm, has started construction on a site ...