General Fusion, a Canadian nuclear fusion energy startup, announced today that it had been thrown a lifeline in the form of $22 million in fresh funding. The company had laid off at least 25% of its ...

Completed in February 2025, General Fusion says its Lawson Machine 26 (LM26) fusion test machine will prove the company can reach ignition, where the machine releases more energy than it ...

Three months after hitting a funding crunch, General Fusion Inc. has secured US$22-million to finance the pursuit of its next scientific milestone in a generation-spanning attempt to develop ...

Cold fusion, one of the most notorious blunders in science, is making a return – of sorts. Scientists have resurrected an experiment that was once claimed to show room-temperature nuclear fusion, ...

Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the Sun, has the potential to generate clean and abundant energy. However, it requires two atomic nuclei to collide head-on at high energies, and current fusion ...

Practical fusion power that can provide cheap, clean energy could be a step closer thanks to artificial intelligence. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a deep ...

Using a small bench-top reactor, researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have demonstrated that electrochemically loading a solid metal target with deuterium fuel can boost nuclear ...

A view from NIF’s Target Bay of some of the final optics assemblies surrounding the Target Chamber, the site of NIF’s inertial confinement fusion experiments. Credit: LLNL/NIF/Jason Laurea AI is ...

Scientists have developed a lightning-fast AI tool called HEAT-ML that can spot hidden “safe zones” inside a fusion reactor where parts are protected from blistering plasma heat. Finding these areas, ...

With Western roots in Ancient Egypt and Greece, the now-defunct scientific field of alchemy regularly consumed the thoughts of some of history’s greatest scientists. Luminaries such as Roger Bacon, ...

China has just placed a major new national bet on commercializing fusion energy, and now is the time for the U.S. to respond. Chinese state and industrial leaders are positioning the country to lead ...

In another sign of fusion energy development’s quickening pace, Helion Energy, a startup with $1 billion in private funding, announced Wednesday it has commenced construction of its first planned ...