Experiments inside a fusion reactor in China have demonstrated a new way to circumvent one of the caps on the density of the superheated plasma swirling inside.

China’s latest advance with its so‑called artificial sun has pushed fusion plasma into a regime many physicists long treated ...

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Indian scientists have developed a non-invasive technique that allows real-time measurement of the local density of ...

In a joint research team project with POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) the Korea Advanced Institute of ...

A tokamak is a toroidal device that employs magnetic confinement to achieve controlled nuclear fusion. It resembles a helical ...

BEIJING -- A novel experiment on the fundamental science of lithium-ion batteries has been carried out aboard China's ...

China’s EAST reactor just broke a fundamental fusion limit—bringing the dream of ignition a big step closer. shutterstock.

At the heart of nuclear fusion research is the tokamak, a sophisticated device designed to confine hot plasma using magnetic fields. The tokamak's toroidal shape acts as a "magnetic racetrack," ...

A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said its experimental nuclear reactor, dubbed the ‘artificial Sun’, ...

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