In General Fusion’s MTF approach, the proprietary liquid metal liner in the fusion vessel is mechanically compressed by high-powered pistons. This allows General Fusion to create fusion conditions in ...

Scientists employ high-energy heavy ion collisions as a powerful tool to uncover intricate details of nuclear structure, ...

Nuclear fusion has yet to become a practical energy source, despite its promise of abundant, clean power with minimal waste.

Chemical reactions result from interactions between the electrons in two atoms ... It has magic numbers of 82 protons and 126 neutrons. Examples of magic numbers and stable nuclei exist everywhere—but ...

Uranium was discovered in 1789. The later revelation that the element was radioactive helped usher in the modern era of ...

It all started with a Big Bang – and now scientists are on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the birth of the universe.

Scientists uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are inconsistent with observational ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are ...

This innovative approach produced the isotope they were looking for much more efficiently and provided a path to constraining ...

Will fusion as an energy source finally become an everyday, commercial reality in the next decade or so—or not come to ...