On the site of a former coal power station, a stone’s throw from the River Trent in Nottinghamshire, work is about to begin on what is being touted as the “Holy Grail” of energy production. As ...

In 1974, “Diamond” Glenn McCarthy sat down to reminisce about the highs and lows, the fortunes made and squandered, by the “wildcatters” of American oil. “They risked and sometimes they won,” Mr ...

At a certain point, even language fails to fully capture all the wild and wondrous things going on inside of ITER, a 23,000-tonne, 35-nation nuclear experiment under construction in France. You could ...

Successful fusion experiments in the US and UK raise hopes for achieving clean and abundant energy through nuclear fusion. Challenges remain in scaling up fusion processes to commercially viable ...

“Fusion is a source of near-limitless, clean power,” Nick Hawker tells Inverse. It sounds fantastic — an answer to the dire need to quickly transition to clean and sustainable energy. But is nuclear ...

The world’s biggest nuclear fusion reactor has begun operations in Japan, marking a major milestone towards achieving the “holy grail” of clean energy. The experimental JT-60SA reactor in Japan’s ...

Friend of gunman in Brown and MIT shootings speaks to CNN: 'I realize maybe the signs were always there' ...

Just 100 years ago, when English mathematician and astronomer Arthur Eddington suggested that the stars power themselves through a process of merging atoms to create energy, heat, and light, the idea ...

Like fossil fuels, natural hydrogen can be used as a primary source of energy. Unlike fossil fuels, the gas produces no carbon emissions. What’s more, hydrogen is constantly renewing underground when ...