Opportunities to invest in commercial nuclear fusion are limited for now, but these companies stand to benefit from their ...

A small American materials startup called Radify Materials is pursuing what defense planners and mining executives have long considered one of the hardest problems in the critical-minerals world: ...

Nuclear fusion, which operates on the same principle that powers the sun, is expected to become a sustainable energy source for the future. To achieve fusion power generation, it is essential to ...

China’s flagship fusion experiment has pushed its superheated fuel into a regime that many physicists once dismissed as unattainable, reaching a plasma density that earlier models said would tear the ...

Inside a submerged glass tube, tiny bolts of plasma pulse through bubbling methane gas. It looks like miniature lightning, ...

Methanol has been made in a single step by zapping methane with pulses of electricity. The plasma-based reaction, which also ...

The interiors of fusion reactors can get seriously chaotic. But for obvious reasons—like extreme temperatures and pressures—researchers aren’t typically able to peek directly inside a reactor. Some ...

What if the key to solving the world’s energy crisis was hidden in a process so ambitious, so technically demanding, that even experts once dismissed it as science fiction? For decades, nuclear fusion ...

Workers wear protective equipment in a cavernous hall that contains industrial equipment. The tokamak hall at Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ fusion energy facility in Devens, Massachusetts, will house ...

Nuclear fusion may be closer to commercialization than previously thought, with private firms targeting operational reactors ...