Children will deploy all sorts of tactics to avoid going to bed. Catherine Heymans’s youngest had a canny one: to distract his mum, an astronomer at the University of Edinburgh, UK, he asked her meaty ...

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—On an expanse of desert here between a Netflix studio and self-storage facility, construction is under way on a fusion plant meant to help America win an escalating nuclear-arms race ...

Sometimes founders search high and low for the right startup idea, while other times it comes to them. Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli are two of the lucky ones. Over and over again, they heard the ...

Princeton researchers have tested an AI system that can monitor and control fusion plasma in milliseconds, reacting far faster than a human operator. In one experiment, it predicted a damaging ...

Security experts at Socket are warning about browser extensions for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge that contain malware. The accompanying report mentions a total of 19 add-ons that were deliberately ...

As simulation becomes increasingly important for both product development and for racing success, race car constructor Dallara is upgrading its simulation capabilities with the installation of new ...

Pacific Fusion is one step closer to commercializing fusion power after breaking ground Tuesday on a facility in New Mexico designed to generate as much energy as it consumes. “It’s a huge step ...

Joe Schatz is the deputy editor-in-chief of POLITICO. DEVENS, Massachusetts — On a rainy July day at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a former U.S. Army base-turned-research park forty miles northwest of ...

Fusion at high temperatures powers the sun and, if harnessed, could provide a potential source of energy here on Earth. But controlling fusion reactions has other benefits. The process also generates ...

A team of scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic and IBM has calculated nine molecular configurations of a promising material to produce fuel for fusion energy—the first known ...