Claims of “net energy gain” in fusion experiments often exclude the massive energy consumed by the full system, leading to misleading headlines. Even under optimistic timelines, commercial fusion ...

Fusion startups have a tough row to hoe. Their mission? To create a new kind of power plant that produces more energy than it consumes — something no one has ever done with fusion energy before. That ...

Fusion power has long been promised as a clean, abundant energy source, but scientists have struggled to harness it effectively. A new approach, however, may finally bring fusion reactors closer to ...

Sam Altman is confident that we’ll unlock the power of the stars soon. The billionaire CEO of OpenAI claimed in an interview with Bloomberg in January that “fusion’s gonna work” in the next few ...

Commercial fusion power plants may be cheaper and easier to build thanks to a breakthrough by TAE Technologies that allows reactors to generate their own containment fields without the need for ...

The way scientists think about fusion changed forever in 2022 when what some called the experiment of the century demonstrated for the first time that fusion can be a viable source of clean energy.