But on January 1, researchers working on China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) — often dubbed the ...

The pursuit of sustainable, carbon-free energy has reached a pivotal moment as researchers in China announce a monumental ...

At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

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

By exceeding a long-standing density barrier, China’s EAST fusion reactor proved that tokamaks can pack way more atoms into ...

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, better known as the country’s “artificial sun,” has just done ...

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has just shattered a longstanding limit in nuclear plasma density.

China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion ...

Setting aside the insane upheaval going on i n US science, this year’s Physics World Live series will give you a sense of what’s hot in physics right now.

At the heart of our sun, fusion is unfolding. As hydrogen atoms merge to form helium, they emit energy, producing the heat ...

Imagine trying to summon the sun to your research laboratory. Yes, you, big bright star! Bring your searing heat, the drama of your core’s constant nuclear fusion and your off-the-charts energy levels ...