Fusion energy, the same process that powers the Sun and stars, has moved from a theoretical promise to an active engineering race. A handful of private startups, backed by billions in venture capital ...

Astronomers using the Australia Telescope Compact Array have mapped polarized radio filaments and wisps inside the Vela X pulsar wind nebula, with the reported polarization patterns indicating an ...

Every few years, the sun seems to change its mood. Dark spots appear and disappear, massive bursts of energy shoot into space, and Earth briefly feels the consequences through disrupted satellites or ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, mapped magnetic fields inside a planet-forming disk and seen how those invisible forces shape the gas and dust into distinct patterns. The new study reveals a ...

A key component of a system that would deliver fusion energy in the U.S. has arrived at Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ (CFS) campus in Devens, Massachusetts. The company on October 28 said the first ...

A delivery ceremony has been held for the toroidal field magnet coil box - measuring 21 metres by 12 metres - at the Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology in Hefei, China. (Image: ...

The cryostat for ITER's magnet cold test facility has arrived at the construction site in Cadarache, southern France, following a 104-kilometre-long journey by road from the port of Berre-l'Étang, ...

Engineers at Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) assembling a toroidal field magnet for the SPARC fusion device (Image source: CFS) US-based start-up Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) announced that the ...

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