Imagine not having to pay your electricity bills because a gigantic magnet surrounding the Earth produced power. Well, Earth indeed has a magnet like this, which is its magnetic field. When the fiery ...

It's part of the STEP — Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production — program implemented by U.K. Industrial Fusion Solutions.

For years, scientists have been trying to replicate the concept of nuclear fusion — the phenomenon that keeps the Sun and other stars alive — and turn it into a working reactor on Earth that can ...

The research shows that magnetic reconnection amplifies the effect. When the black hole’s spin approaches its limit, the rate of reconnection — the speed at which magnetic energy is converted to ...

Fusion power is shifting from a long-standing scientific aspiration to a rapidly advancing technology attracting billions in ...